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?

NS

Gotta get me some of those...
Very Ben Sherman...

Almost Fashionable!!!:ok:

MOG

Yer avin a giraffe Shirley?:uhoh: :yuk:

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???

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.:}

Did they bannish you to the ranges or did your socks take you under their own power?:p

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.......

Has Sir, Has a pair or two.

Its a long time until April 1st NC

Now, now Pontius don't go poking fun at others on this most serious of topics.

Incidentally did you have any inclinations to transferring to pongo at any time:}

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. :ok:

Yes I tried, but the PMO told me to spend another 6 months living as 'Linda' before he could recommend me for the special IRREVERSIBLE operation!

What did you try Matt?

A socks change of course!

Got my part 1 and part 2 and can remember the composition of a platoon, 30 rounds per man, 2 Bren mags per man, etc etc. Then I saw sense:

Warm bed every 24 hours, fried egg for breakfast, morning papers in the, batman . . .

PN

??????

Which regiment was that!! :p

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

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 :ok:

The 88 set had the rather risqee Tx switch that Matron would have enjoyed....

No, we were an offensive lot. Leopard crawl, cake walk, life preserver etc.

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:suspect:

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!