Scotch Harry

This smock has been issued.no labels but the colour and style of buttons are the same as on a RADAR SAS Smock of mine.

Outline of removed Wings and DZ Patch.

^{Not the same vests as yours im afraid.}

Funny you should mention 1986.

Thats when i started my brief spell in the ACF and can fondly remember after passing various tests on drill etc we were bussed off to some Army depot somewhere to receive our uniforms-i was lucky somehow to be given brand spanking new DPM cadet Smock and Trs while a few of the lads were well peeved to be issued the DPM trs but with manky used green Windproof smocks-they werent happy at all:D:D:D:D

Sure i saw one on Ebay recently.

Nice ! Very low contract number too, so I would date these as from the first production runs of the mid-1970s........

 

I have a near-mint Size 3 windproof also from this era and in the same cammo pattern and colour.....

Thanks for the info regarding the contract numbers-they mean nothing to me:embarrassed::embarrassed:

Another item i never knew i had:nut::nut:

Not so long ago, you would have had to pay someone to take these off your hands........but in recent months, if Ebay is anything to go by, these smocks, particularly in the larger size 4 and 5, seem to be fetching between £60 - £120......

 

Hard to value in real terms though.....something is only actually worth what someone else is prepared to fork out for it.........:-D

Unfortunately with Ebay these days there are seriously wealthy collectors who are willing to pay ANY price for items they want-great for the sellers but not so good for us poor collectors.

Another problem this brings is just because said item sold for £xxxx everybody else with similar items then think that thats what their item is worth.

Shame all 3 are a small SIZE 2.

Another pair,unissued condition.

Just having a rummage through my piles of stuff and finding stuff i didnt know i had or had forgot about.

As far as I am aware and every one of the Rural Patrol helmets I have seen are in black. The later green ones are proberly the Para helmets, not to sure though.

Jon

Jon,have a look at my other helmet in green(allbeit painted green;)).

Rural Patrol,never heard them called that before.

This one appears to have been made in black-the colour doesnt appear to be any paint or finish but the self colour of the actual material-RUC made maybe???

Nothing out of the ordinary here except the labels are quite different.

Label is faded unfortunately but old style size can just about be seen.

That makes two of us Harry ! :-D

Yep,i have TONS of weird and wodnerfull items that looking at them now wonder what the hell was going through my mind when i bought that:wow::wow::wow:

Going by the date, this would have originally had the vynil/leather harness fitted......but these were often subsequently replaced from '86 onwards by the GS MK6 webbing version......

I thought the vinyl chinstrap assembly was binned straight after the Falklands due to the negative comments from the Paras who were issued it. After this they can be seen with the Tan coloured web chinstrap from the WW2 type steel Para Helmet.

If anyone is interested,this could probably go as it doesnt really fit into my collection and i have a bad habbit of buying unusual stuff;)

Thanks to all for the welcome,would have replied sooner but am not getting email notifications so only just noticed:blush:

Welcome to another North Walian.

Diolch Yn Fawr Degsy.

Unfortunately no labels or anything else to id the maker>