![]() This mask came forth out of the M14 for armoured vehicles and airplanes. The only difference between the M9 and M9A1 is another model of cloth carrying bag. This one is the latter model in which the stitches are glued to provide more cover. ![]() This one comes complete with it’s original airtight sealed container and a chemical protective hood. Production began in the early fifties by Firestone, MSA and probably other contractors? Mine is from 1953 and has the code GN (Genistron Corp.?). This one comes with a filter adopted in the seventies. Made after specifications of military masks used in WWII. No bag, box or whatsoever was with it.Ĭivil Wilson WIG type gasmask. The mask was bought from a former instructor there. The mask is a part of an SCBA-unit used by the IREA ( Instituut voor Reddingswezen Ergonomie en Arbeidshygiëne), a coalmining institution in Belgium. This model has a circular exhale valve on the front. This one was found in the engine room of an old seaship in the port of Antwerp.Ĭivil All service gasmask mod. The strange block-type thing at the end of the hose is a clock, wich can be set to 4 hours (working time of the filter in maximum conditions). This one has a Filter cannister adopted in the early seventies. High quality inudstrial and military mask, made by MSA in the begin of the fifties. Military M10 (also known as a civil all service gasmask mod. ![]() Two fixer filters were attached at each side. Production started by MSA in 1957, but mine was made in 1968. This one comes complete with the cardboard faceform but unfortunately no fabric carrying bag. ![]() The wearer fixed the filter at the back of his neck. Military Navy ND Mark IV Diaphragm Gas Mask. (This mask was exchanged by a fellow collector, Viktor Ferrando from Spain, thx Vik!) This mask comes with a cloth bag which is the same as those of the M3 lightweight service mask. Military M2-10A1-6 lightweight optical gas mask, made by Firestone in 1952 (see production clock). That’s why those masks were given out to soldiers in more tempered climates. Problem was that in colder regions the masks suffered of “cold set”, wich is the stiffening of the neoprene. Production began in 1941 and facepieces were made out of neoprene instead of natural rubber. Military M3 Lightweigt Service Gasmask, made by ? (capital R is found) in 1943. Previous ones are made with metal parts instead of plastic. The mask is the follow-up of the famous Kops-Tissot-Monroe mask which was developed just after WWI. Last picture is in comparison with another cloth bag for the M2A1 training gasmask. ![]() differences are in the facepiece material and the head harness. Babies were put inside the case and when all the covering flaps were folded and the straps closed up, the baby was totally enclosed.Military "non combatant" M1A2-1-1 gasmask, produced by? There are at least 2 versions. Children were issued with colored masks to make them feel less scary.īabies had special cradle-like respirators which would only be issued out if an emergency situation arose. They were carried normally in a cardboard box or in some cases a tin box and had to be taken wherever you went. In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. Note the carrying handle on the respirator used to carry the baby by the nurse in the foreground”. The photo is part of the Imperial War Museum in London and the original caption reads: “Three nurses carry babies cocooned in baby gas respirators down the corridor of a London hospital during a gas drill. This gas mask was for children up to two years old and the design covered the whole of the baby except for its legs. The hospital is running a drill to make sure that they can implement the procedures for poison gas and in this case, the nurses are testing out infant gas masks. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940. ![]()
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