By: QldSpitty - 30th August 2011 at 11:04
Try the MkV Trop,Equipment drawings..There are plans there for a rations box.
By: QldSpitty - 30th August 2011 at 11:04
Try the MkV Trop,Equipment drawings..There are plans there for a rations box.
By: Mark V - 24th August 2011 at 17:25
The PR.XI had provision for an emergency desert supplies box in each wing – the bungee was possibly to retain items in that.
By: PeterVerney - 24th August 2011 at 14:24
You sure the rations were not the cords themselves. I remember in the mid ’50s, being issued with thermal vests and long johns which had rubbery buttons. We were told the buttons were edible in emergency, such as when we were stranded in the Arctic or wherever.
By: Fieldhawk - 24th August 2011 at 12:03
Anyone know what was on the menu?
Compo sandwiches – donated by British Rail. Bungee was to help prevent ends turning up. :diablo:
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd August 2011 at 16:30
When were bungee cords invented
Pre WW1 I’d think, as most aircraft undercarriages used it.
By: FoxVC10 - 23rd August 2011 at 15:53
They are on Canberras so got to be fairly old.
Compo sausages????yummy
By: spitfireman - 23rd August 2011 at 14:37
When were bungee cords invented? I thought they were more recent.:confused:
By: Tin Triangle - 23rd August 2011 at 14:31
What I want to know is, why is it in camouflage pattern, and what colours would they have been?!
By: sycamore - 23rd August 2011 at 14:13
Hard Tack,cold beans,and powdered egg…
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