Anyone been to exchange Socks recently?
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Anyone been to exchange Socks recently?
I kid you not - black cotton with RAF Roundels on them
How much of the defence budget did they cost?
Who got promoted for designing them?
What ever next?
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How much of the defence budget did they cost?
Who got promoted for designing them?
What ever next?
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Swinderby, 1984, was the last and only time that I took deleivery of such stock; What line of Stanley Mathews socks 'n'shreds are they issuing you that you can't afford to buy from other "usual" outlets that most people procure from???
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Still use a 1962 pair. The 57 pattern pulle dto bits but the 62 pair were built to last.
Provided you did not wash them too often.
Provided you did not wash them too often.
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Those '62 socks were a marvel.
Designed as a result of lessons learned in the Crimean war, the 1862 stocking was marvellous, and Pontius had a prototype pair.......
Designed as a result of lessons learned in the Crimean war, the 1862 stocking was marvellous, and Pontius had a prototype pair.......
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Still got my 1953 issue Long Johns, well cared for by the stackers until 1979, when I drew them. By 'eck do they keep t'chill out when it's parky. 
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Warm bed every 24 hours, fried egg for breakfast, morning papers in the, batman . . .
Ah, but PN, can you recall the 'duties of a sentry' still?
Were you, too, forced into khaki horsehair with blanco'd belt and gaiters at school because there was no RAF section?
The Set Wireless No 38 Mk 3, Telephone F Mk 2, Set Wireless 88 etc. were my forte - bugger all that marching about stuff lugging the Lee Enfield No 4 around the parade ground!
I too have a pair of those black socks as issued in 1968. Heaven knows what they were made from though - still no holes after 38 years of use! Not that I wore them much in the last 15 or so years as they are horribly uncomfortable
Were you, too, forced into khaki horsehair with blanco'd belt and gaiters at school because there was no RAF section?
The Set Wireless No 38 Mk 3, Telephone F Mk 2, Set Wireless 88 etc. were my forte - bugger all that marching about stuff lugging the Lee Enfield No 4 around the parade ground!
I too have a pair of those black socks as issued in 1968. Heaven knows what they were made from though - still no holes after 38 years of use! Not that I wore them much in the last 15 or so years as they are horribly uncomfortable
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BEagle - you should have worked harder at (primary) school, then you could have got into a school with a light blue offering. A good 80% of my RAF (CCF) joined to avoid the horrors of the Hairy Mary
The 88 set had the rather risqee Tx switch that Matron would have enjoyed....
The 88 set had the rather risqee Tx switch that Matron would have enjoyed....
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Ah, but PN, can you recall the 'duties of a sentry' still?
Were you, too, forced into horsehair and blanco'd belt and gaiters at school because there was no RAF section?
The Set Wireless No 38 Mk 3, Telephone F Mk 2, Set Wireless 88 etc. were my forte - bugger all that marching with Lee Enfield No 4 stuff!
Were you, too, forced into horsehair and blanco'd belt and gaiters at school because there was no RAF section?
The Set Wireless No 38 Mk 3, Telephone F Mk 2, Set Wireless 88 etc. were my forte - bugger all that marching with Lee Enfield No 4 stuff!
We had more .303 ammo in the attic than a typical RAF Station - one day we counted up the ammo boxes. We had about 250 000 rounds of .303 ball. In the armoury we had at least a dozen Bren. For some reason we did not have any Sten guns.
We had an RAF section (bloody glider scared me sh1tless) but we had to do a year's square bashing first. Mutuals one on one with several others all screaming commands in pseudo trebles. And 5 years later doing exactly the same thing in a hangar at South Cerney
What is a 'primary school'? Is that like a prep school for oiks?
The 88 set 'pressel switch' certainly had a rather dubious look about it, I agree:
Total thread drift - why did the 88 set supplied to many school CCFs have an interference pin fitted to stop selections of Channels A & B?
Once went into the local town with a chum to collect the Sten gun blank-firing barrel which had been repaired at a local gunsmith. We had to take the gun along as well to check the fit. The look on the faces of people when my chum fished a Sten gun out of his briefcase was priceless!
The 88 set 'pressel switch' certainly had a rather dubious look about it, I agree:
Total thread drift - why did the 88 set supplied to many school CCFs have an interference pin fitted to stop selections of Channels A & B?
Once went into the local town with a chum to collect the Sten gun blank-firing barrel which had been repaired at a local gunsmith. We had to take the gun along as well to check the fit. The look on the faces of people when my chum fished a Sten gun out of his briefcase was priceless!