LBA "Chelton" & "Combat LD"
Article about: A number of LBA-made pre-production/pre-sales Compos - They are labelled as the “Chelton” tank crew helmet and a “Combat LD” model....very similar shapes. I’ve not seen these in us
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Hey LBA is that ww2 german airforce thingy mark right!!!
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I saw those LBA/Chelton on Ebay but couldn't summon the will to spend the money (they failed the 'how much joy will this bring me' test when opposed to a handful of Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley cds). They *are* interesting; I did the uusal research and found nothing worth mentioning. The only point I'd make is that they're all dated ten or more years back; is a this a failed project by LBA? By the way, I also failed to find any current web-presence for LBA. What have I missed, or are they gone too?
Re FB, A few years back I got a bit excited by the proliferation of helmet-related pages and joined several, but was in the end disappointed and left almost all. Too much seemed to be less about information than 'look what I just bought for a large amount of money' (or alternatively, 'look at the thing I got from my secret contacts that I'm not telling *you* about'). That was tedious enough (althoiugh to be fair some people are obviously proper researchers/collectors with all the right instincts (Philip Cachia, Ian Young, for example) - see also the current Para helmets group, some good people there) but the general illiteracy you allude to is wearing. There seems a distinct fear of punctuation - though I wonder whether that is because too many people try to communicate via phone keyboards with all the attendant problems.
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Thanks Greg. I think LBA (Helmets at least) might’ve come and gone. I’m pleased with the examples I got especially in their production-thru-the-ages style.
Re Facebook...seriously I’ve been pleasantly surprised AND kissed more frogs than I knew there were. I now understand the almost total lack of punctuation and pleasantries.....I don’t like it but we are where we are....or
“Cheers m8 glad you licked them lids”
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