Mystery Brow Pads

[Robin Craig]

Good day,

Can anyone help identify this pair please? Suspicions lean heavily to post war British type vehicle.

Thanks in advance

[Mike Cecil]

Isn't 99 the NSN code for the USA?

I don't have the list handy to refer to and working from memory is always risky!

Mike

[rob love]

Nope, 99 is the country code for the UK.

The US used 00 until they exhausted their possible numbers around 1974. After that, they went to 01, and are well on the way to using those up. After that they have reserved from 02 to 10.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks, Rob: that's what I get for working from a poor memory!

Mike

[Russell Boaler]

They look very much like Daimler ferret drivers side periscope brow pads to me.

[Lynn Eades]

So while we are at it, Is "00" the code for USA origin?

[Robin Craig]

They have been identified as Ferret.

Thanks to all

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

So while we are at it, Is "00" the code for USA origin?

Yes. The NSN numbering system was a modification of the US federal stock number (FSN) system. The addition of the 00 in between the stock class and the part number made a FSN into a NSN.

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by rob love

Yes. The NSN numbering system was a modification of the US federal stock number (FSN) system. The addition of the 00 in between the stock class and the part number made a FSN into a NSN.

'99' is the UK...

...and some wag assigned '66' as the country code for Australia.

Chris.

[David Herbert]

'99' is UK. The key to this question is the 9ASC mark. This identifies the primary application and could well be Ferret but I cannot confirm that. 9ACR is FV430 family and 9GWRP is Saxon if that helps anyone !

David

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by David Herbert

'99' is UK. The key to this question is the 9ASC mark. This identifies the primary application and could well be Ferret but I cannot confirm that. 9ACR is FV430 family and 9GWRP is Saxon if that helps anyone !

David

Hi David,
9ASC is definitely the code for Ferret parts.

[Lynn Eades]

So... You guys are calling these NSN numbers. When I was in uniform they were called (rightly or wrongly) Nato numbers. Please enlighten me.

[rob love]

NATO STOCK NUMBER =NSN

There is a Wikopedia article that calls them National Stock Number in the USA. Even so, NSN will work there too.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Chris Suslowicz

'99' is the UK...

...and some wag assigned '66' as the country code for Australia.

Chris.

Funny enough, when I was in AFG Task Force 66 was the Aussie SF.

[Mike Cecil]

A NATO unclassified document (Oct 1996) which lists the codes is headed:

"Table 13: NATO Code for NCB (NCB Code)

A Code which identifies the country assigning the NATO item identification number, or NAMSA, as the assignor of a NAMSA Management Control Number."

Clear as mud!! Never have worked out what NCB actually 'expands to in full: 'NATO Code B...?' (or how you get NAMSA from NATO Item ID, for that matter). Any ideas on that, Rob?

Australia lists equipment under a DSN - Defence Stock Number, which is essentially the NSN 'rebranded' as a DSN.

Mike

[rob love]

NCB is National Codification Bureau.

There is a good basic writeup on NSNs here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Stock_Number

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks Rob

Mike