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Greatcoats
Not me selling ok, but if you are planning to eventually get one we are in summer and the ideal time to pick one up cheap, just a heads up.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174788235...a12c%7Ciid%3A1
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Exactly why I mentioned it now, no one looks at buying winter coats in the summer, ( Christ, i'm sounding like my mother ) so it's the time to pick them up possibly cheap.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313499228...QAAOSwQMlgcuDq
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The only part of kit that had to be handed back at discharge (in the '70s at least) because it was considered as 'public clothing' or something like that. A quality clothing item, unlike those gawd-awful OR 'maternity' macs.
Why on earth anyone living in the UK would need or want a 'greatcoat' is beyond me. Most of the time the weather isn't really all that cold - and even when it is, it's only for short spells.
Winters are much less severe these days than those I recall from childhood, apart that is from '62-'63.
I never had any need for that flasher's mac with which we were issued at RAFC either. Someone stole mine and I never found the loss a problem....
Hooray for global warming!!
Winters are much less severe these days than those I recall from childhood, apart that is from '62-'63.
I never had any need for that flasher's mac with which we were issued at RAFC either. Someone stole mine and I never found the loss a problem....
Hooray for global warming!!
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Why would anyone want an RAF Arctic Ventile Parka in the U.K. Beagle, but they do, one on eBay at £1000 and another at £1600, and I’ve seen them £2000 plus.
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The greatcoat was a shade problematic however given I had long returned it to public ownership via a student in the "Glanrafon" pub in Bangor.
I prefer to think of this deal as being a private enterprise intended to foster community relations whilst relieving SCAF of the burdensome paperwork associated with the items disposal.
The £20 came in useful in '73
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You are kidding me! Binned mine not so long back, mint condition etc...just took up heaps of room and never wore the damn thing. Ah well...
Typically, I would wear my Greatcoat two or three times a year - until I was posted to an ISODET in Germany and then to an Embassy where it could get bone-snappingly cold for three months of the year - generally coinciding with commemorative events which would require me standing - shivering - for hours at a time. But the coldest I have ever experienced was the unveiling of the NZ War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner on 11 November, 2006. Bitterly cold and how I felt for the haka party, stripped to the waist. Who knew Maoris could be blue?
I now have 2 x large (44") greatcoats for disposal, btw. Not much use for them in a care home, sadly.
I now have 2 x large (44") greatcoats for disposal, btw. Not much use for them in a care home, sadly.
Anything vaguely 'military' will sell on eBay. I sold a field dressings haversack last year - presumably to a re-enactor - for a cool £85.
Why on earth anyone living in the UK would need or want a 'greatcoat' is beyond me. Most of the time the weather isn't really all that cold - and even when it is, it's only for short spells.
Winters are much less severe these days than those I recall from childhood, apart that is from '62-'63.
I never had any need for that flasher's mac with which we were issued at RAFC either. Someone stole mine and I never found the loss a problem....
Hooray for global warming!!
Winters are much less severe these days than those I recall from childhood, apart that is from '62-'63.
I never had any need for that flasher's mac with which we were issued at RAFC either. Someone stole mine and I never found the loss a problem....
Hooray for global warming!!
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Sad to say I am not
Ventile clothing is expensive, and it's a worldwide market on ebay, so may end up in Canada etc.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294204183...4AAOSwqfFgtRO4
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224482299...4AAOSwDmlgqrio
Sold items
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