LCC ambulance crews pose by their vehicles. Probably before the autumn of 1942 given the lack of battledress and the fact that bluette combination suit overalls are being worn. The ladies are wearing the standard issue drivers' cost.
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One of several leaflets sent out just prior to the start of the second world war. Whilst I was at a boot fair in Abergavenny, a dealer in militaria showed me what he said was an ARP miner's lamp made by Hailwood & Ackroyd that had blue glass fitted. He said that these were manufactured during the war and placed on gas leaks during air raids. The blue glass stopped them being seen from altitude. "The Air Raids Precaution Department of the Home Office discovered in the tests carried out at Bedford that Aircraft flying at 2,000 feet cannot spot dime blue lights", Flyer Magazine. I checked this up online and indeed a couple of sites mentioned this information. The site said that over 100,000 such lamps were offered for sale during the war at 3/6d. Some had red glass. I was initially sceptical of this until I found more about them online. There is allegedly an advertisement for this lamp from the war and I would be most interested to see it. Edit: an original period advert for the Hailwood Lamp now added below.
I visited Abergavenny flea market today and found a number of home front badges which were all at remarkably low prices. It's rare these days to come across a badge I have never seen before but this small blue and red enamel lapel badge also had a white cross attached to the bottom. It has a pin brooch back. At this time I have no idea what this represents.
UPDATE: members from a badge forum thought the cross - a saltire - could be a good luck symbol or possibly related to the badge coming from Scotland. A interesting hooded torch built especially for ARP personnel. |
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