Making Pots From German Helmets 1946

[wizardman]

German newsreel from 1946, converting Helmets to Pots Making Pots From German Helmets - British Pathé

[No1canuck]

Cool video. If we ever had our presses and lathes set up like that video, the safety authorities would jail us!!
Steve

[harryamb2]

thank you Wizardman.

[FALLSCHIRMJAGER]

Why not? Got to do something with the steel!! Leon.

[Alter Musketier]

Thank you very much for opening this thread. Who knows which pieces like those were used in my grand-parents' kitchen and maybe I played around with and used as a solid "helmet" when I was a child ?

With best wishes
alter musketier

[wizardman]

Wouldnt it be fantastic if someone had one of these pots or even better a half made one

[relicz]

I took these pictures at Ron R's last spring with his permission. If you know who Ron is, then you know if it exists - Ron likely has a least one (or more likely a bunch). Ron is a wealth of information and shares his amazing collection most generously on multiple collector's forums.

[TrondK]

I remember i saw a funny photo of a helmet converted into a tool with a long shaft for emptying old outhouse toilets. But that was back in the 1900s.

[Jerry B]

Lots of these kitchen ware helmet conversions made at the time and you see them on ebay for sale every now and then.

These are in a museum in the Nederlands.


There have been threads on this subject previously, though perhaps not with the footage.