Do you know your helmets? Summer quiz!

**Jack59** · 08-13-2023, 04:16 PM

Hi everyone, It's Summer time, things are slow.
Here is a little visual quiz about helmets, try to identify the country user & the model.
FYI: The original set up was done by my tablet not me. Have fun.
Identity of helmets are at the bottom.

Having fun? Three more then!

Let see the identity & model.

I know, a composite helmet did sneek in!
The Finn M36/55 as an Hungarian shell.
The Czech M30 is the export model used during the Spanish CW.
Bulgarian M36/C head band holds like the Greek M36/39 & Italian M33 helmets system.

**Greg Pickersgill** · 08-15-2023, 12:38 PM

This is more difficult than it looks, mainly because the images are small. I seem to be lacking the time to save and enlarge them. But anyway, here we go, first thoughts without any checking - oh no wait a minute, you've already provided the answers. In some obscure way that is cheating! Quite difficult anyway, some of these are particularly unusual helmets.

My original answers, from sight only not using references -
from top left

? - France M16 - ?
Bulgarian M26c - Greek M38 - Portuguese M40
British Mk2 - Spanish M42/79 - Spanish Marte (one of the 85 models)
Spanish M65 para - ? - DDR M56 later model

Some years ago I did for a while a similar quiz, based on a single more-or-less unique detail of a helmet. Tried my best to baffle everyone involved but I think only on one occasion I got no correct answer. If I remember right it involved a Belgian fibre DR helmet from the early 1950s. Or a Norwegian Cato-Ringstad composite, I dunno now. Is this sort of thing worth reviving here? Any opinions?

**Jack59** · 08-15-2023, 04:08 PM

Your good Greg, photos are not to clear even enlarged, part of the challenge. Hum! The tablet in a weird way saved side by side 15 helmets interior together, total coincidence! A screen shot was the only way to keep expose them together. I found it cool so I kept it, got the quiz idea a few days ago, for fun & to change my mind from translating Japanese writing part of my M66 quest. So far 10% of members liked the quiz enough to say so. A little distraction is fun, why not?

**Estonian** · 08-15-2023, 05:54 PM

Let's continue with the Swedish M37 and clones

**Jack59** · 08-15-2023, 06:12 PM

Hope it's not a Quiz

or... is it?..

M37-70: 1

M37-62: 4

M37: 3

Tough, tough!..

**Estonian** · 08-15-2023, 06:52 PM

3. Swedish M37
4. Swedish M62

**Tinhat** · 08-15-2023, 07:27 PM

1. Finish M40
2.
3. Swedish M37
4. Swedish M37/63
5. Swedish M37/70
6.
7. Estonian/Polish M40 (great helmet)

**Greg Pickersgill** · 08-15-2023, 10:42 PM

Number 2 is a Danish M46, which is kinda sorta derived from the M37 ( SWEDISH/DANISH M37/46 hybrid )

and as far as I am concerned 1 is a Finnish M62, 5 is a Swedish M37/65 and 6 is a Swedish M37/60. And is 8 a Finn M40, I dunno, I htink my eyesight is failing.