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Supak manufacturing co ltd made berets from the mid 30's and in 1943 started to produce example in other colors they followed the kangol way of making the out part of the beret for roughly 80% of the manufacturing process

Unlike the other makers they produced pre-sized marked liners which had there co name located above a date with the size above the white line and then the government arrow the size stamp is always central to the makers stamp they only had one white dashed line to stitch the internal cloth section to the berets and 2 rows of stitching.
They did not use a washer behind the eyelets and the leather pad is again hand stitched in place, with a single thread around the inside of the beret . Normally a WD stamp would be at the inside crown area of the beret which can some times be missing as with one of the examples shown.
The leather band has a over lap join and is stitched in place this leather band is slightly thinner than other makers and there for tends to crack and be brittle these again are fixed in the same way as Kangol made examples with 2 machine stitched rows . A good bit to note here is how the leather band always sits flat with no curtain extra bit for the band to be stitched to. Shown below is a Kangol on top of a Supak .
Also shown is a better example of the makers mark inside a 1944 dated black RAC / RTR example .

NOTES
1 The date markings where done in two sizes during the war how ever during the war years they always had a white line above their name which moved below there name after the war ( see post war markings later in this thread ).
2 The leather brim is brittle and thinner so check for new bands being added when looking at them .
3 The leather brim always sits flat with no curtain bit for it to be attached to.