Here we see pictures of my British MKII 1943 made by BMB. BMB stands for Briggs Motor Bodies of Dagenham Dock, Essex. Briggs Motor BodiesFrom Graces Guide: . Branch factories in Southampton and Doncaster. 1930 Briggs Bodies Ltd was established to manufacture motor bodies, steel stampings, etc for Ford 1935 Public company was formed to acquired Briggs Bodies and the benefits of the patents, rights to designs, etc in Britain of Briggs Manufacturing Co of Detroit which manufactured for Ford and Chrysler. 4,500 employees. Manufactured also for Austin, Riley, Chrysler, Standard [1] WWII Manufactured parts for the De Havilland Mosquito 1951 Together with Austin Motor Co. Ltd., Ford and Pressed Steel Co Ltd., Briggs provided additional capital for British Indestructo Glass by taking up an issue of debentures which gave them voting control. 1953 Acquired by Ford.
This helmet has been reused after the war by Belgian Army. It has been painted in the typical green used by the Belgian Army and received a Belgian made liner. More pictures see part 2
This ABL helmet liner from 1951 manufactured by the company X.B. Xavier Buisset from Vilvoorde. AB = Armee Belge (French) BL = Belgisch Leger (Dutch) both mean Belgian Armee
This is a British MKII made by the company F&L in the year 1939 Based on the color I think this helmet has been re-used by The Netherland army, after world war 2.. F&L = Fisher & Ludlow LTD of Birmingham UK. Found on Wikipedia: Fisher and Ludlow was a British car body manufacturing company based in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. It was acquired by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1953. After the merger of BMC and Pressed Steel Company (PSC) in 1966, and the formation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) in 1968, the Fisher & Ludlow business was merged with the PSC business to form Pressed Steel Fisher under BLMC.
This ABL helmet from 1952 manufactured by the company X.B. Xavier Buisset from Vilvoorde. AB = Armee Belge (French) BL = Belgisch Leger (Dutch) both mean Belgian Armee Size = 57
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The inside of the helmet is army green and later painted in Airforce blue.
Made in 19?7 by HS,the company HUTA SILESIA, - a former zinc smelter located in Świętochłowice in the Lipiny district. Following text was translated from https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huta_Silesia This helmet does not have the latest type of liner like the model Wz75 but the liner type is of Wz67.
Made in 1977 by HS,the company HUTA SILESIA, - a former zinc smelter located in Świętochłowice in the Lipiny district. Following text was translated from https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huta_Silesia This helmet does not have the latest type of liner like the model Wz75 but the liner type is of Wz67.
Made by COFABEBA: Mutsfabriek van Cofabeba from Mouscron Manufacture Belge de Bérets Basques (COFABEBA) rue de Dixmude 24 in 1995 Toujours en activité in 2007 Démolition, habitat en partie
Year 1966 MITIN is the product used to protect against moths.
After World War 2 the Romanian model 38 helmets made in the Netherlands like the Dutch M34 were replaced by Russian made Ssh 40 helmets. These are pictures of mine Romanian Model 40 the liner is missing. When the Model 73 came in use the Russian made helmets were removed from service en made unuasable by ripping out the liner and hitting a hole in the shell.
This insigna was of the first design used by the Netherlands army. It was used from 1946 till mid 1952. This this particular insigna was used from 1950 till mid 1952. This I can see by the way it is installed on to the beret. It is installed with the help of eylets on the insigna and a splitpen. Before this they used metal clips.
I got this beret from Henk van der Giessen he was a conscripted and served in the army in the years 1967 -1968 as an officer cadet in dutch "Vaandrig"
Henk wrote me how the 1950 insigna got onto an 1967 beret: As I wrote: rustling! As an vaandrig, of course, it was necessary to wear an old emblem. Yes Bert. When you 'sit close to the fire, you warm yourself best'. Or arranging something is nice. You belonged to it, if you had an old inscription in my conscription time 1967 - 1968.
They military stores still had some old insignas on stock.
E3G127 is the laundry identification number for H. vd Giessen
In May 1968 Henk was a 23 year old dïenstplichtig vaandrig, in this picture he is at the far left, wearing this beret. He was the bivouac Commander of a group of corporals (TS's) and new soldiers of a heavy transport company in the Drunense Duinen.
Later he became Staff Officer S1 with a deployable Transport Battalion (814 TBAT). Wibo Aris of Road Air TMI Schiphol was Cdt. We did the Last Repetition Exercise of NL in Ossendrecht in 1992.
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