I have recently fouind at binbrook a old locker but i am trying to dertermine the era it might have been used.
It is of wooden construction about 6 ft tall and has a rail at the top to hang your clothes off.
On the front door it has a small area where you can slide your name ,rank details etc.
I wondered if it might have been one of the old wartime ones from out of the crew rest room and locker rooms etc but as i have never seen a picture of any of the lockers used by the RAF i cant actually tell so i am hoping maybe a member might be able to post a picture of lockers which were used so i maybe able to identify it.
I shall try and take a picture tomorrow to post up on the site.
Thank you again in advance
I had a 5ft wooden locker when I joined almost 50 years ago, also a 30in one with a drawer at the top, however, I think that the large one also had a shelf at the top, but it did not have a name space on the front. Finally, one minor point, I served in the Royal Air Force, or even the RAF, NOT the raf.
I had a locker/wardrobe just like the one described. Its most definetely NOT WWII issue. Onetontone was at one time a barrck warden hell probably be able to give a section ref.
And I served in the RAF to use the correct service writing, or though I prefer to use R.A.F.
If its really old it will have A.M. with a crown and then the Section and Reference that forms the individul stores number for that item. Section 21 was barrack furniture, subsection 21B was woodware, then a reference number of up to 7 digits,
I shall have a look tomorrow but i think it might have been painted as its a light green colour but i shall have a good look at it and get some pictures.
Thank you guys for all the info so far though.
Very interesting
If its really old it will have A.M. with a crown and then the Section and Reference that forms the individul stores number for that item. Section 21 was barrack furniture, subsection 21B was woodware, then a reference number of up to 7 digits,
The later Nato type stock numbers had seven digits ted but, as I recall, wartime and early post-war on the former Section/Reference system were all up to four digit (I shall stand corrected!)
I never forget Drawers, cellular (Airmen) 22B/390 and Panties, knitted (WRAF) 22B/???? (should rememeber, saw the labels often enough!)
Hi Peter Yes pre NATO system no 7 digits, However, 4 digits the most common, but 3 and 5 could also be seen. 16A 850 was a Scammell recovery tractor. 16E 22195 was an MoS standard taillight. Certainly in my world the transition to NATO numbers was very protracted. initially we used the following config 16F/6220-99-1234567. In the early stages of the transition a demand would be 16F 1234567 and for a time this was all that appeared on labels, so it could be the locker if pre pure NATO numbers could be 21B 123, 1234, 12345, or 1234567 . It caused mayhem once the 16F etc was dropped we had stocks in depot that Hendon or Stanbridge whoever it was at the time, couldn't recognise with their super computor.
We then got embroiled in a lot of our stuff getting codified by the Army so it would become for example LV6MT3 6220-99-1234567.
TED
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