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For some unknown reason, quite a few eBay sellers believe individual ARP buttons are incredibly valuable. Here we have a one priced at £16.15 (plus £3.38 shipping). Do they never look at previously sold items? My spares tray would be worth a grand...  ARP button madness on eBay  My spares tray of ARP buttons
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Finally added the Adie Bros. 1941-marked ARP whistle to the collection. With more services being issued with whistles, Adie Bros. Ltd. in Birmingham were engaged to produce ARP whistles. Almost identical in manufacture to the Hudson ARP whistle, examples are stamped 1941. There were also over half-a-million black acetate whistles manufactured and I'm on the look-out for one of those. More details about ARP whistles here.
As every Wardens' Post was issued with a wooden gas rattle, vast numbers were manufactured prior to and during the war. Some are easily identifiable as they are clearly marked for ARP use. Quite a number of rattles appear online and at fairs, often marked as "Air Raid Precautions Gas Rattle", but they can be easily confused with wooden bird scarers. It's hard to be be definitive about a few designs as they closely resemble WW2-manufactured rattles. The below appeared on eBay as a WW2 rattle. It has no markings. I guess a bird scarer could be reused for a gas rattle at a push. Also, rattles with a metal soundbox were issued by the army.
Another of items sold during the war is this rubber shock preventer. I'm not entirely sure what ESKA relates to (it was a brand of Swiss watch but it's unrelated to this item).  ESKA Rubber Shock Preventer For Use During Air Raids Following on from the recent "Lumi-Disc" luminous device, we have the ARP Gloworm Luminous Buttonholes. Another of the wartime businesses cashing in on the black-out. I imagine they were as useful as a candle in a sock...  |
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