Birmingham Transport Home Guard Grouping.

An ephemera and medal grouping to a Sgt.Joseph Harry Ratcliffe of Birmingham City Home Guard. Ratcliffe of Perry Bar served with the A Company HQ of the 31st Warwickshire Birmingham Home Guard based at the Liverpool Street Garage. The 31st was one of two battalions that were formed from the employees of Birmingham City Transport with Ratcliffe being a bus Inspector.
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Code: 14341

Special Constabulary Police Helmet.

MkII helmet by Briggs Motor Bodies featuring a blue spray finish with stencilled ' Police ' to front with an overlaid ' SC ' transfer indicating ' Special Constable '. 1939 dated, size 7 MkII liner again by BMB ( Briggs Motor Bodies ). Particularly clean example with what appears to be a contemporary blemish to the SC transfer ,minor scratches and wear to rim and missing liner buffer.  read more

Code: 14340

Air Raid Warden Bronze Door Sign.

Scarce, bronze and enamel ' Air Raid Warden ' sign. 6" x 1.5" and manufactured by Butler Jones ( Nameplates ) Ltd based in S.E. London who were responsible for the production of many of the variations of Warden signs to be found. Good, used condition with residual label to the reverse, light marking to obverse.  read more

Code: 14339

Royal Ordnance Factory No.16 lapel badge.

Gilded brass lapel badge with half moon fitting for Royal Ordnance Factory No.16. .No.16 was ROF Elstow, Bedford(Filling Factory No. 16).
These badges were introduced in 1940 for workers at the various factories across the UK but were phased out from 1942 because of their consumption of valuable raw materials.
This badge made by T.L.M.Ltd, B'ham and is numbered '1977 ' to reverse....  read more

Code: 14338

Wartime tin of Nescafe Instant Coffee.

Small wartime tin of Nestle's ' Nescafe ' instant coffee. Featuring the classic wartime economy expedient half label and the ' spidering ' common to tins made under the changed wartime tinplate restrictions. Good, used condition with the finish dulled by the spidering.  read more

Code: 14337

W.D.& H.O.Wills ARP Cigarette Cards in original album.

Set of 50 cards given free with Will's Cigarettes entitled ' Air Raid Precautions ' Issued in 1938, the full colour cards show subjects from choosing your refuge room,gasmasks, incendiary bombs and anti-aircraft guns with explanatory text to the reverse. They were intended to be mounted in an accompanying album and were issued pregummed. This set is contained in it's original album issued by th...  read more

Code: 14336

Hints for the Home Guard.

C1940/41 64pgs ' Hints for the Home Guard - Training and Duties including the methods of defeating an armed man '. Lt.Col.D.C.L.Fitzwilliams. Early, naive study ' dealing with the enemy ' with some amusingly optimistic sketches ! In good overall condition with some light foxing.  read more

Code: 14335

January 1945 Edition of the Land Girl.

Volume 5, No.10 January 1945 edition of the Land Girl.16pgs with all of the regular columns, county news etc with features on post-war careers for Land Girls, and ' If you were a Land Girl in Brazil.' in good, used condition with some rusting of staples.  read more

Code: 14334

ARP Handbook No.14 The Fire Guards Handbook.

1942 ,45 page Ist Ed copy of ARP Handbook No.14 ' The Fire Guards Handbook '. A good clean copy, with minor marking to covers, dealing with all facets of the Fire Guard organisation from Incendiary bombs to stirrup pumps. Whitefield ARP ownership stamp to cover.  read more

Code: 14333

Victory lapel badge.

Pressed chrome lapel badge featuring the ' V ' and the morse symbol for V, three dots and a dash. Half moon lapel fitting to the reverse. In clean, bright condition with some abrasions.  read more

Code: 14332