THE HELMET THREAD

Salade cover -Brown side out

Danish Civil Defence M48.....often mistaken for a US M1

Liner of Danish M48....very similar to US M1....notice that Danish Liner have grey webbing,and the Liner material is a different colour laminate

Danish stamp on the rear edge of the rim inside.

Norwegian M58-another Euro M1 clone,often sold on Ebay as a US M1...

M58 Liner

This marking denotes that the shell is of Austrian manufacture

Bulgarian M 36 A

M36 A liner (probably post -war retrofit)

This German M-42 shell,was allegedly found in a ditch in Normandy....but who know's

What's left of the liner....

British Mk 5

MK 5 Liner....type worn in the Falklands War 1982...by Infantry unit's.

For some reason I always thought the shape of the Mk5 to be REALLY ugly when worn.

Great example though, you dont see as many of these as the brodies or the Mk6.

US WW2 M1,USMC mosi cover fitted

Spanish M1 ( Front seam US M1 derived)

Spanish M1 liner

misanthropic_gods wrote:For some reason I always thought the shape of the Mk5 to be REALLY ugly when worn.

Great example though, you dont see as many of these as the brodies or the Mk6.

Cheers Mate.


I could not agree more,the shape has got to be one of the worse the British MOD ever came up with,this is one of 7 , I got a few years back as a bulk load....one is now a hanging basket outside my back door ,still they were cheap to buy I suppose

Easy Gee wrote:

misanthropic_gods wrote:For some reason I always thought the shape of the Mk5 to be REALLY ugly when worn.

Great example though, you dont see as many of these as the brodies or the Mk6.

Cheers Mate.


I could not agree more,the shape has got to be one of the worse the British MOD ever came up with,this is one of 7 , I got a few years back as a bulk load....one is now a hanging basket outside my back door ,still they were cheap to buy I suppose

HA HA! I dont blame ya..the shape lends them to be a better pot than helmet!

misanthropic_gods wrote:

Easy Gee wrote:

misanthropic_gods wrote:For some reason I always thought the shape of the Mk5 to be REALLY ugly when worn.

Great example though, you dont see as many of these as the brodies or the Mk6.

Cheers Mate.


I could not agree more,the shape has got to be one of the worse the British MOD ever came up with,this is one of 7 , I got a few years back as a bulk load....one is now a hanging basket outside my back door ,still they were cheap to buy I suppose

HA HA! I dont blame ya..the shape lends them to be a better pot than helmet!

Absolutely...I know there's a lot of lid purists out there,who might take offence at my wilful destruction of a "classic British" Lid...but let's be honest their horrible, and probably worth more in scrap metal,than as a combat lid

Argentinian Para M1....Falklands issue 1982

Argentinian Para M1 liner.

A helmet from both sides of the Falklands conflict!?! Sweeet..havent seen too many of those Argentinian helmets around before

Another Argentinian M1... possibly Naval issue

This is a US sourced Firestone, and fitted with Argentinian Webbing and sweat band,again this one is more than likely ,Falklands war issue