We had 3 or 5..... or even 5 at one time including a box of bits and a heap of tat - and they were all slightly different but interesting. There must be enough info out there for a small booklet. Anyone out there game? If people collect oil bottles and chargers and there's books and forums dedicated to them (I kid you not.....) then there ought to be something for Swifts, surely.......

And don't even get me started on '37 pattern webbing collecting/collectors............ It's a shame they weren't apprentices in 1963 and had to scrub it monthly for 3 years, blanco it weekly, make kit/locker layouts with it all packed and padded out, straps wrapped and rolled, brasswork gleaming, front and back and woe betide any poor soul that had a spot of blanco on the brass or the merest sign of brasso on the blanco'ed part. The worst part now is that they think that we are kidding them on. They say that age makes you look kindly on those old quaint practices. It doesn't, believe me!