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I have a pair of MB headlamps, Marchal Equilux, just the glass and reflective backs. Good condition.

Also a radiator cap.

If these are of any good to anyone on here, just make me an offer.

Otherwise they're going in the bin!

Just like it says in the header; Willys Jeep 'cane' type handbrake assembly: handle in olive green, ratchet tube and cable.

Hopefully of use to someone on here.

£28 plus whatever it costs to post it.

If you need pics, send me a personal message with email address and I will sort.

Just like the header says - M38 front bumper in great condition.

No good to me, so may as well go to someone who can use it.

No particular idea on price so make me a fair offer and it's yours, plain and simple.

Buyer will need to collect from west Kent or arrange their own courier as (guess what!) it's bulky and heavy.

Hope this will be of use to someone on here.

Not getting used, so time to move this on; Frank Brown (aka 'Pegasus Drive') hand made repro of WW2 British Army Airborne Denison smock.

Widely acknowledged to be the best repro Denison on the market today, costing about £300 new.

According to the label inside it's a Size 7 - which I'd say is an XL to XXL; it's big, loose and baggy, just like the originals; with brass half zip and brass Newey poppers.

In very good condition.

£195 plus p&p.

SOLD

Time to part with my genuine Eastman Leather Clothing USAAF Wartime spec 'Jacket Intermediate Flying Type B-15', representing Rough Wear Clothing Co. Contract 6338AF.

Nice overall wear patina - has been mistaken numerous times for an original. If you check their website, Eastman still produce these at £500 a pop!

Owned this for about 10 years, but never wear it now, so may as well go to someone who will use it.

Very wearable, hard to find size 48 (so an XL, extra large). As worn by fighter pilots and bomber crew in the last couple of years of WW2.

As true to the real thing as you can get - cotton twill shell, fur collar, alpaca lining, correct pockets, correct USAAF arm insignia, correct collar label, etc, etc.

Rugged and warm - ideal for open cab winter driving without the bulk and restricted movement of a leather A2 or a shearling B3 or Irvin.

I'm looking for 2 for my Militant Tanker, probably the pair of '67 ones. I can collect from you next week if that's convenient. Thanks

Rob - You have mail (x2). If you want these can you come back to me please?

Cheers.

Well they post-date the 1964 demise of the War Dept, so they don't have a WD mark, but yes they do indeed carry the broad arrow and are very definitely British Army.

Looks like these are sold then - gents, ping me a DM if you haven't already and we can arrange details.

(Rob - not ignorance at all, no reason you should know; the letters after the dates are the maker markings).

Five 1960s Brit jerry cans for sale. Not trashed, perfectly usable, details as follows:

1967 RTB x 2

1968 RTB

1968 BSC CPW

1969 RG

£7 each - hope they might be of use to someone.

Nothing special or exciting; they are what they are.

Located in west Kent. No idea what they'd cost to post, but unlikely it'd be worthwhile posting them, tbh.

I may be able to help; let me have a bit of a dig and I'll get back to you with a DM.

Yep, absolutely - but unfortunately I don't plan on going to any shows and need the straps.

Found someone on here who has some for sale but yes, agree with you, it'd probably be sensible to do an internet trawl too.

I see Worthings will make up straps too - but don't suppose that's a budget option!

Thanks - but having difficulty enough locating P37, as it goes!

Surely somebody, somewhere must have some going spare?

Guess not!

Need some webbing straps to secure bits and bobs to the Jeep - does anyone have any canvas Jeep straps or 37 Patt British webbing utility straps going spare?

They don't have to be mint, just need to tie up OK.

Thanks, in advance.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Chris (not quite ex-RWK as they amalgamated just before I was commissioned)

Very interesting and thank you for taking the time to add your thoughts. Now I'm in a bit of a quandary!

I'm looking at RWK as it's our 'local' regt so of a bit more interest to Joe public, around here.

Was also thinking about a Polish unit from Italy or Normandy, as I have some connections.

I was fortunate enough to have an ex-RWK Western Desert and Italy veteran as a next door neighbour for about a decade. He was always very complimentary about the Teds (Germans) - not a good thing to say about the Eyeties!!

 

As you can imagine working out seniority can be a bit of a nightmare especially as Bns came and went!

 

I hope this helps

 

Larry

Thank you sir - it certainly does!

It was the seniority malarkey that I was finding hard to fathom, tbh.

Thanks again.

I am trying to fathom what the unit markings would have been for vehicles of the 1st and the 6th Battalions, respectively, of the Royal West Kent Regiment during the Italy campaign.

The Divisional emblem is the easy bit - circle quadrant (4th Inf Div) for the 1st and battleaxe (78th Inf Div) for the 6th.

But what would their individual battalion unit numbers have been and presented in what format?

Can anyone advise please? It's unfamiliar territory for me and I am a bit in the dark on how the system worked.

Many thanks.

No. Both would be 'jumping off' the right hand side (as you face it) of whatever vehicle they are on.

So, for example, jumping off the right hand edge of your Jeep's front bumper and the right hand rear corner of your trailer, as you face the back.

See?

Absolutely right - Peg and Bell should be 'jumping off' the vehicle, that is pointing to your right if you are facing the front of your Jeep.

the new "improved" version of thompsons no longer states canvas, but I put some on an old canvas that covers the kids rabbit hutch two or three years ago and it's been fine.

Dude - you really shouldn't keep your kids in a rabbit hutch! :-)

Cracking display - and nice pic with the Chippie (I learnt to fly in one of them with the RAF cadets).

Good work, sir!

Beret, for sure.

Rare that you see anything else being worn by 'the lads' in pics from that era.

You both have PM.

Having a clear out of the bookshelves, so grab yourself some summer reading material! All the following for sale, something for everyone here and cheaper than Amazon:

'Jane's Infantry Weapons 1980-81' (Hardback) - £20

'N-Class - Nizam, Nestor, Napier, Norman, Nepal' - Lind/Payne £20

'Falklands Witness of Battles' - Briasco/Huertas £12

'The Long Range Desert Group' 1945 edition - WB Kennedy Shaw (hardback) £10

'Kent Home Guard - A History' - KR Gulvin (hardback) £7

'OSS Special Weapons' - H Keith Melton (hardback) £7

'With Kitchener to Khartum' - Steevens (hardback) £5

'Modelling the Mosquito' - Osprey Modelling Roy Sutherland £5

'German Aircraft Markings 1939-45' - K Merrick (hardback) £4

'Airfields of the Ninth - Then and Now' - Roger Freeman (hardback) £4

All at £2.50 -

'The Valentine in North Africa 1942-43' - Perrett (hardback)

'War in a Stringbag' - Commander Charles Lamb DSO DSC RN (hardback)

'The First Day on the Somme' - Martin Middlebrook

At £2 -

'The Big Show' - Pierre Clostermann DFC

'Popski's Private Army' - Vlad Peniakoff DSO MC (hardback)

'Prisoners of Hope - with the Chindits in Burma' - Michael Calvert

'Near East' - Cecil Beaton (hardback)

'Gideon Goes to War - Orde Wingate and the Chindits' - Leonard Mosley £1.50

All at £1 -

'Officer's Manual of the Western Front 1914-18'

'Sussex Airfields in the Second World War' - Robin Brooks

'For Your Freedom and Ours - the Kosciuszko Squadron' - Olson/Cloud (hardback)

'Damn the Dardenelles' - John Laffin

'Field of Fire - Diary of a Gunner Officer' - Jack Swaab

'Ginger Lacey - Fighter Pilot' - Richard Townshend Bickers

'Spreading My Wings' - Diana Barnato Walker

'SBS the Inside Story' - John Parker

'Tommy on the Western Front 1914-18' - Richard Holmes

'D-Day Fortitude South' - John Reymond

'To the Last Man - Spring 1918' - Lyn Macdonald

'Mosquito at War' - Chaz Bowyer (hardback)

'Bomber Squadron at War' - Andrew Brookes (hardback)

'The Luftwaffe Album 1933-45' - Dressel/Griehl

'Lancaster at War 3' - Garbett/Goulding (hardback)

'The Royal Family in Wartime' - Hardback 1945

All at a mere 75p! -

'The Boys' Crusade' - Paul Fussel

'No Easy Day' - Mark Owen

'American Sniper' - Chris Kyle

'Pegasus Bridge' - Stephen Ambrose

'Wild Blue' - Stephen Ambrose

'Black Hearts' - Jim Frederick

'Basic Aviation Modelling' (Compendium Modelling Manuals 1)

'The Quiet Soldier' - Adam Ballinger

'Mud, Blood and Poppycock' - Gordon Corrigan

'Boy Soldiers of the Great War' - Richard van Emden

'Excursion to Hell' - Vince Bramley

'Brasso, Blanco and Bull' - Tony Thorne

'Night Flyer' - Lewis Brandon DSO DFC

'Task Force Helmand' - Doug Beattie MC

'The First Heroes' - Craig Nelson

'Sea Flight' - Hugh Popham

'Gunner's Moon' John Bushby

'The Legendary SpitfireMk1/III 1939-41' - Osprey Aircraft of the Aces

'Ultimate Risk' - Mark Nicol (hardback)

'Spitfire Ace - Flying in the Battle of Britain' - Davidson/Taylor

'The Forgotten Highlander - War in the Far East' - Alistair Urquhart

'The Hardest Day - 18 August 1940' - Alfred Price

'Inside the Soviet Army' - Victor Suvorov

'D-Day the Battle for Normandy' - Anthony Beevor

'Forgotten Voices of the Great War' - Max Arthur

'Forgotten Voices of the Somme' - Josh Levine

'Seven Troop' - Andy McNab DCM MM

'Armageddon' - Max Hastings

'Jane's World Aircraft Recognition Handbook - 4th Ed' - Derek Wood

'Jane's Tank Recognition Guide' - Chris Foss

'The Railway Man' - Eric Lomax

P&P will be extra.

Happy to take Paypal - but you cover the fees.

They 'decided not to' (if they ever gave it any thought at all) because the whole thing would have been a massive administrative ballache. Much easier just to make these and flog them while allocating a random 1st July 1916 name to each, regardless of whether living relatives might find that mildly annoying, because that makes each sale more 'unique'.

Have been a lifelong supporter of the RBL - but feel they got this one fundamentally wrong.

But, hey, it's tough out there and as long as the cash is coming in, what's a few offended relatives of people who fought and died for their country 100 years ago, between friends?!

Does anyone have either a '2' or a '3/2' Jeep bridge plate that's surplus to requirements?

It'll go to a good home - and I'll even pay you for it!

Many thanks.