Field Pack, canvas, signal, no. 1, MK 1/1

[David Dunlop]

This item shows up in the C42 Set Manual, with Stock Numbers 8465-99-940-0047 and ZA 27294. There is only one photo of it in the manual, an end shot of it sitting on the wireless table beside the C42 set.

I suspect it may be a standard part of the postwar Larkspur wireless series and it looks like it is probably dark olive green canvas rather than khaki. Is it identical in design to the wartime Signals Satchels, or were there design changes? It may even still be in service with other signals equipment today so probably was not surplussed out when the C42 Sets were withdrawn from use.


David

[rob love]

http://www.qsl.net/ve3bdb/satchel.html

I recall seeing the WW2 ones until around the early 1990s. After that, if we ordered them in we got the light green canvas variety. I could run the numbers at work to see if they are still a current item, but somehow I think they are past their time.

[David Dunlop]

Nice reference article, Rob. Thanks for posting.


David

[Ed Storey]

I too can confirm that the wartime versions hung around for years within DND and there still may be the odd one lurking in the dark corner of a QM somewhere although as Rob states, they are well past their time.

Besides the wartime examples, DND did have similar post-WWII version manufactured in green webbing, although they were never seen in as large numbers.

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

This item shows up in the C42 Set Manual, with Stock Numbers 8465-99-940-0047 and ZA 27294. There is only one photo of it in the manual, an end shot of it sitting on the wireless table beside the C42 set.

I suspect it may be a standard part of the postwar Larkspur wireless series and it looks like it is probably dark olive green canvas rather than khaki. Is it identical in design to the wartime Signals Satchels, or were there design changes? It may even still be in service with other signals equipment today so probably was not surplussed out when the C42 Sets were withdrawn from use.


David

"Haversacks, No.1", it's the direct descendent of ZA.6292 Satchel, Signals, which gradually evolved (mainly via name changes to Satchel, Signals, No.1, then with plated fittings and rotproof canvas to the Mk.1/1 (or No.1T) with the stores code changed to ZA27294 (I think). There was parallel production of the khaki and light green versions later on (1944 to match P44 webbing?) and the post-ww2 dark green canvas (58 pattern colour?) with NSN.

Chris.

[David Dunlop]

Thanks to the Eagle Eyed internet skills of Geoff Truscott, I am now the proud owner of an NOS C42 Set Field Pack complete with correct NATO Stock Number, 1964 issue. It even has that delightful smell of anti fungal spray that seems to have been used a lot on canvas back then. Reminds me of the boxes of Canadian Bush Jackets that used to be at Westbourne Supply many years back that were grey white in colour because they were coated so heavily in the stuff. Didn't seem to matter how often you washed the jacket, if you stood in the hot Sun for a few minutes, you started to smell like a dry cleaning shop!

Love it!!!


David

[Ed Storey]

A nice item, but what you have is a post-WWII British manufactured Signals Satchel, the NSN stamping on the item most likely places production sometime after 1960. These satchels were issued with most radio equipment in order to hold some of the many ancillaries that were issued with the equipment.

[rob love]

Ed: But that is exaclty what he wanted when he started the thread.

By he way, I checked the NSN and it is obsolete in the Cdn system.

[Ed Storey]

As long as he got what he wanted, that is the main thing.