Steel Helmets For Auckland E.P.S.
[Special to “Northern Advocate”] AUCKLAND, This Day. The E.P.S. in Auckland has undertaken the production of steel helmets for its personnel. Recently officers of the service located in the city a stock of 18-gauge black steel plate, which appeared to be suitable for making into helmets. In order to test it, a helmet was roughly shaped, set up beside an army helmet of recent date and fired at with heavy buckshot at very close range. The shot pierced both helmets on direct impact, making rather larger holes in the locally-made one than in the other, but oblique hits were deflected in each case. Experts who witnessed the test considered that the improvised helmet was 90 per cent, effective.
Quantities of sponge rubbei, oilcloth, hard fibre strips and metal rivets were also found to be available for lining materials. An application to the Government for the release of sufficient steel for several thousand helmets was granted this week. Arrangements have now* been made with two Auckland metalworking factories to have dies made and undertake the stamping of helmet bowls.
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Northern Advocate, 19 February 1942, Page 4
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