Swedish collector Stefan either had, or had access to, a lot of these test and experimental helmets. I believe he knew Anders Skotte. Anyway, Stefan published pictures of many of them, both in his own webpages and as contributions to helmet forums. I have a lot of these saved but I don't intend using them them here as obviously it would not be appropriate in a thread on the M37.
It is worth remembering that almost no-one other than a few collectors in Sweden will ever see or handle any of those test helmets.
I think I mentioned this before, but Skotte's recent book "Svenska militärahuvudbonader Hjälmar 1917-1945" (
Svenska militarahuvudbonader Hjalmar 1917-1945 ) has a large section on t&e helmets, In fact it seems like he has more info on them than on the actual issue helmets! The book is entirely in Swedish, no English precis or anything like that; I'm working on translating the text for my own purposes but will be happy to provide parts in this forum as appropriate. (No, I do not have Swedish, but I've done this before and scanned and OCRd pages put through Google Translate works well for all but the most technical terms, with a bit of copyediting afterwards.)
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