Does anyone know when the small black plastic handled cleaning brush, found in No5/SLR cleaning kits, first came out, please? Were only wood handled brushes found in the No5 rifle cleaning kit during WW2 with the black plastic handle version coming out post WW2? Or did the black plastic handled version actually come out during WW2? I suspect that only the wood handled version of the brush was available during WW2 but I don't really know one way or the other? I ask this question because I have found the black plastic handled version of the brush in Wartime No5 rifle cleaning kits but these could have been later replacements. I do realise that there was also a later grey plastic handled version of the brush found in SLR cleaning kits.

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