Interchangability of Military Tools

[rob love]

David

The only number on your list that is still valid is the US NSN for the lightbulb on the very bottom. They are a trade number 1446 bulb. Some of the US numbers change up to new numbers....the Cdn NSNs are long gone.

[David Dunlop]

Thanks for taking the time to check those numbers, Rob.

Since that entire kit was so specific to the 52-Set, it doesn’t surprise me everything short of the bulbs are long gone.

I have since run across a couple of other photos of the empty Receiver Boxes with the tan overpaint. They showed inspection dates of 1966 and 1968 that must have been very close to the end of service for the 52-Set.

Be nice to find a NATO Stock List for the Boxes, Tools items but if stocks in the supply system were reassigned in or around 1962, that would have left only the Boxes in service with issued sets surviving and I do not know how the Military would have dealt with that issue if replacement items were needed.

David