Help ID some trinkets from my last visit to the Surplus store

[rob love]

Chris

I think that goes without saying.

[chris vickery]

Did the addiction start with anything less than a manual? A wheel nut perhaps? Maybe an intervention is required.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

Maybe an intervention is required.

No way....you guys would just trick me out of my stuff.

[Wayne Hingley]

Rob, I have a little bit more "stuff" for you on my trailer tonight. I have to make a second trip though. It got dark and the transfer was a little bit tricky for the last piece. Should have it all tomorrow.

[rob love]

Right on, more stuff. Still more room in the sheds, and I'll buy more sheds if need be. Actually, still have two rather large sheds to put up yet.

Thanks Wayne.

[tankbarrell]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

Did the addiction start with anything less than a manual? A wheel nut perhaps? Maybe an intervention is required.

My Sherman project started with a carb flange gasket set...... Manuals usually predate the vehicle itself, much like Rob.

[David Dunlop]

I have to ask this.

Was there a long standing tradition of this bit of kit being issued to the Royal Artillery, and was it's sole purpose to aid the gun crew in brush clearing, or were there other unique artillery purposes for which this item served?

I ask because a different, more traditional machete was standard issue with every CMP Tool Kit during World War Two, and it came with a protective sheath. It seems odd that two different designs would continue to be produced when the economies of war would suggest consolidation to one standard design, if they were both serving exactly the same purposes.

That's why I ask if perhaps it was purely a tradition the Bill Hook Machete was kept in production? Tea cups rattled in Artillery Officer's Messes around the world at the very thought of giving it up???

David

[rob love]

This one was marked to the Lake Superior regiment, who I do not believe were involved in artillery.