MT badge on female officers SD jacket

[JON188]

I'm currently watching a 1943 film called Yellow Canary. Just over 10 minutes in there's a female officer sat at a table with the MT trade patch being worn top left of herSD jacket?
I thought the badge was worn on the cuff?
Regards

[Wooffy]

Screen Grab of Scene in Question

[JON188]

Cheers woofy

[badjez]

Sadly, I think the only pictorially accurate film representations of uniform are the old newsreels. Hollywood, Pinewood, and Ealing Studios etc. cannot be trusted to accurately represent proper uniforms. Whereas old soldiers memories can be forgiven for fading with time (and therefore providing inaccurate recollections) the film companies persist in repeating their old mistakes. I would ignore them as potential accurate research sources: enjoy a movie for the fiction it is.

Stephen.

[JON188]

However I think that this being 1943 is a good chance of being pucker?
You may be right of course.
Happy collecting
Jon

[grumpy]

Please what does the "MT trade patch" look like.?

[Wooffy]

Here you go

[grumpy]

Ah! That one!

In contrast to many of the demi-official and unofficial badges of WW II, this one actually first reared its head in the Great War.

So far, no official reference to it has been traced.

I would dearly love to be proven wrong.

[Postwarden]

Whichever badge it is that is being worn it's wrong for two reasons:

1) Officers did not wear trade badges and
2) ORs wore them on the cuff and not at the top of the sleeve.

There is evidence that ATS ORs did wear the winged wheel but it does not say which letters it carried.

So wrong however you look at it.

Jon