Production run and maker of British lightweight Para helmets?
Article about: The British lightweight/M76/Para (whatever you want to call them) helmets have always interested me and they are a rather nice aesthetic alternative to the Mk6 (even though they were not rea
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Now there's an interesting question. And if anyone can answer it in comprehensive detail I'll be genuinely excited.
Well, OK, parts of it are comparatively simple, there were at least three distinct versions (one of them essentially trials/test so really rare) and a number of manufacturers are known. Dates are not so easily established unless they're actually on the makers label or (less easily accessed) in the mould-mark in the crown of the shell beneath the liner.
I don't have a list of makers easily to hand - they include NP (National Plastics - by far the majority), Thetford Moulded Products, Malcolm Campbell (the earliest test run), and the ones I can't recall now.
By the way - correct terminology really is HELMET PARACHUTISTS LIGHT WEIGHT for the early ones and simply HELMET PARACHUTE for the rest, usually ('round 'ere anyway) styled as HPLW in the tradition of the steel HSAT. There is *no* indication that they were every officially called M76 and that is thought of as Bad.
There are two or three pretty good threads on these helmets in this specific forum.
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