MHillyard Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 Got 2 of these at a show this year. One is full and the other has a couple of compasses in. Each piece is military marked. I assume they are post-war but i can't say i've seen a set like this before. I am sure someone here can enlighten me on the subject. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I sold one of these to a dealer a couple of years ago which my father brought back from his WW2 RAF service. Used by the navigator in aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 This particular set is of Army origin. W10 is the Section of the Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores that includes magnetic compasses, drawing & optical instruments, watches, survey, hydrographic survey & underwater sound equipment. Unfortunately I don't have a VOAS but I have a 1986 COSA but that of course is composed of NSNs. Is it by any chance 12" x 6"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 The parrale ruler is used to transfer a course to a naval chart. A picture of it would help, but remeber the RASC did run marine craft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHillyard Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 It is approximately 12" by 7" when open and 5" by 7" when folded up. Below are pictures of the two sides of the ruler (the best i could get for now without too much glare). Also a photo of a mark only visible on the mostly empty set. RAF would make sense as the person i bought them off of did national serive in the RAF and that may have been where he got them from ( also got a tin of Air Ministry floor polish from him ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Suslowicz Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 The protractor has a VC stores code (as well as being in section W), and all the scales are for use with maps. I suspect it's a set for map making, artillery survey, or similar. (I have a Flash Spotting field telephone and some survey flags with VB (I think) stores codes on them.) Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAFMT Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Definitely Army stores code, not RAF. What you have is, as other have said, for field sketching and map plotting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Damm good general navigation set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 The set I sold had Air Ministry marks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAFMT Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 The Air Ministry/RAF used the same set but the rectangular protractor above is stamped with an Army stores code. Having said that, i've seen a few sets for sale that have clearly been cobbled together with an assortment of bits and have some WD stamped items and some with AM stores codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 This particular set is of Army origin. W10 is the Section of the Vocabulary of Army Ordnance Stores that includes magnetic compasses, drawing & optical instruments, watches, survey, hydrographic survey & underwater sound equipment. Unfortunately I don't have a VOAS but I have a 1986 COSA but that of course is composed of NSNs. Had a rummage! I see I do actually have a Section W10, it was first published in 1937, reprinted in 1948. Although it has has items as early as VC0010 it does extend beyond VC1380 but does not actually include it. Then I realised although this VAOS is based on the 1937 publication it was revised in 1956. So one can conclude it was wartime & by 1956 was obsolete as far as an item of stores, though no doubt continued to be used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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