Info on Brittish PECOC trials?

Have anyone managed to aquire any uniforms, gear, bits or kit from the Brittish MoD's 'Personal Equipment and Common Operational Clothing' or PECOC trials in 2009?

I have been looking to find out what bits of kit survived, or rather evolved, from the trials and went into modern Brittish combat gear. Does anyone know?

And i have seen the odd equipment bag and helmet cover in the intermediate brown, ochre and sandy coloured DPM camo (that I guess got beaten and eaten by MTP) pop up on eBay, but have not seen them turn up on this forum.

Has anyone got some info or pieces to show off?

There is a seller on Ebay at the moment with a few PECOC body armour covers for sale.

I've never seen any of the 4 color trials stuff for sale, but on eBay UK there is usually a piece or two of PECO available. Prices are always STUPIDLY high.

Steve

I seen everything of PECOC on ebay - full sets of PLCE and single ithems of this, bergan rucksacks, LCTV vest and body armour vests.
But You are right - prices is very, very stupidly high.
:/

And sadly most of these items have had a craft knife taken to them, as they generally appear to be slashed or labels removed too

Yeah, I think I've only seen one or two of the plate carriers without slices through them.

Steve

I have a day pack and two other varieties of webbing. I will post photos tomorrow.

The Osprey Armour survived, one on ebay now, Pouches, Grab Bags and Neck protectors for the Osprey Armour.

Some PECOC stuff in my collection.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rordog95/sets/72157626442225097/

A web harness and a day pack in 2 different PECOC trial patterns


Close up of the day pack pattern.


Close up one one of the pouches.


Middle suit is one of the trial patterns halfway between temperate and desert. The label, button tapes and thread are all sand colour, showing that the suit was made from original material as opposed to just dying a desert suit. Also the cloth is rip stop and I have not encountered any 2 colour desert clothes in rip stop.

Cool stuff!

The green shirt is very interesting. Someone took to heart the field dying of desert kit and tried to make a uniform out of the concept? Odd that the buttons are desert types.

Steve

Check label - this jacket is Flame Resistant? FR suit are different colours like normally desert stuff.

The suit is not FR. I have a desert FR suit which is rip stop as you say but the non FR suits are plain weave.

As the per the above thread, I have managed to acquirw a bit of the dyed kie, all brand new. I wanted to try and show that all this kit is just dyed but was manufactured and issued in the green colour....hope you like the pics !!



Shirt Ripstop, Dyed Green, I think it is badged to 216 sqn PARA.







Trousers...





A shirt with a little difference...I can only presume when they manufactured the garments, this shirt, was at the end of the print run as the colour is not like the other shirts I have...a lighter green - quite cool to be honest !!!



UBAC





Finally my collection to date 3X Ripstop Shirts, 2 UBACS and 1 pair of trousers - I am just waiting on two more sets of trousers...

Sorry for the mis spelling at the top - my laptop was about to die !!

Nice trial uniforms interesting colours

Hi, thanks...I don't know if they were part of the PECOC trial or just a hybrid/UOR camo to combat the green zone in afghan. I don't think it went into mass production and I have only seen very few items about. The kit itself must have been dyed by the manufacturer and then produced the garments...can't understand why it is classed as Desert DP though as it isn't?! I don't suppose anybody knows the sand colour TRF under the Blue & White 216 Para Sigs TRF is?! SRS? I did have a better picture but it wouldn't upload!! Sorry!!

It could have been a unit purchase. As we know soldiers were field dying their kit already, so a unit deploying to the same area may have procured kit ahead of time. If it was a lower level purchase then they wouldn't do things like change the labels and contract numbers.

Beautiful stuff.

Steve

That's a very interesting view Steve as my source said the unit he left, had a room full of this stuff, most of it new and it had been sat there for years. So I suppose it could have been a unit purchase from the contractor.... I didn't know at a unit level, they could contact the manufacturer direct and not via the MOD to produce a batch of kit!! Very interesting, I wonder what else is out there....

In the US military this sort of thing is possible. A Colonel calls up a manufacturer, hammers out a deal, and the deal gets done. Manufacturers are always interested in making more money, so I can easily see a manufacturer saying "sure we can do that, and here's what it will take to make it worth it to us".

When you think about it all the manufacturer did was run the cloth through a dye bath before assembly. Not a big deal and certainly within reason for a unit to afford. Having the uniform construction significantly altered, on the other hand, would likely be beyond what a unit could afford. Heck, it looks like they found a custom thread color wasn't in their budget, not to mention button color change! I can also see MoD being involved even if just to give it's blessing.

It really depends on how much flexibility there is within the British procurement system. I have no idea so maybe my theory holds no water.

BTW, I have a factory made overdyed US Army UCP jacket. So it seems the US and UK both played around with this. Very rare and in this case they did change the color of the velcro and (IIRC) the zipper. But otherwise bog standard jacket and labels.

Steve

Thanks Steve, very interesting and makes sense! Just noticed there is a UBAC and a shirt on eBay in the above green!! Does look as if bits are filtering out!

Here you go gents if anybody is interested in acquiring a couple of items..

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=111209129894

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=111212797100

Here's a comparison picture with a US ACU overdyed green before being constructed:



This one is mine and I am absolutely sure it wasn't overdyed after construction.

Steve

Interesting is that Steve, I like it!! Very nice item!

Better than the original colors

Steve