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    I've got some patten 44 RAF Blue webbing with 50s, 60s and 70s dates. I've also got a Browning web holster in RAF Blue which I used myself in Iraq untill I managed to get a PLCE holster (We never got holsters issued, we were expected to keep them in out Tac Vests which, when you have a L85 slung too, restricted access to the Browning)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mk VII View Post
    Production of this special set stopped around 1942 and the standard Army stuff was procured thereafter. Some items of the old stuff, such as the belt, continued to be served out into the 1950s.
    And the 60s & the early 70s belts, gaiters, small packs & back packs were still on general issue. Well until Feb 8th 1975 when I took my final leave of HM forces

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    Quote Originally Posted by sprog View Post
    And the 60s & the early 70s belts, gaiters, small packs & back packs were still on general issue. Well until Feb 8th 1975 when I took my final leave of HM forces
    I think that MKVII's point was that the army coloured webbing was a war time expedient. Contemporary photographs often show RAF personnel wearing a mixture. Post war, everyone got back to "Proper Soldiering".

    To my certain knowledge '37 pattern equipment was in used in non-infantry Army units in BAOR at the time of which you speak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beerhunter View Post
    I think that MKVII's point was that the army coloured webbing was a war time expedient. Contemporary photographs often show RAF personnel wearing a mixture. Post war, everyone got back to "Proper Soldiering".

    To my certain knowledge '37 pattern equipment was in used in non-infantry Army units in BAOR at the time of which you speak.
    Perhaps MKVII could clear it up. I was of the opinion that he meant that the R.A.F. blue webbing ceased to be issued in the '50s.

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    There's certainly blue stuff made in the 50s about. It probably ceased to be procured when the new generation of stuff started arriving in the 60s, conscription ended, and the air force started settling down to a smaller volunteer force. People like the tankies, who didn't have much use for webbing and usually stuffed it in the bins on the tank, continued to get the WW2 stuff into the 1970s. I used to have some WW2 khaki stuff with Air Ministry contract numbers on it, likely procured for the RAF Regiment.

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