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Old 01-02-18, 10:19 PM
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ideas please.,,,,,,,,i think it's Finnish.
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Old 02-02-18, 05:05 AM
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Why would a Finnish badge have English writing?
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Old 02-02-18, 08:11 AM
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I’m guessing here, but I suspect it’s a WW2 era home front ‘on national service’ badge.

That is, for the likes of skilled engineers, workers, etc, excluded from military service and working at the ‘M&A’ company - involved in some capacity regarding the production of armoured vehicles.

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Old 02-02-18, 09:13 AM
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Alex Rice.......I put 'AM National service' and it's repeated in a batch of Finnish ones
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Alex Rice.......I put 'AM National service' and it's repeated in a batch of Finnish ones
That's a surprise!
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Old 02-02-18, 09:53 AM
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What ever it is it has just made £31- on ebay......the tank certainly does not look like one of ours.
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Old 02-02-18, 10:26 AM
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What ever it is it has just made £31- on ebay......the tank certainly does not look like one of ours.
And currently on sale for >3.5 times that amount on a well known dealer’s site.

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Old 02-02-18, 10:27 AM
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I think that the tank on the badge is a very inaccurate portrayal of a British Mk VI Light Tank c 1939. Perhaps the company had a hand in making them? Mike
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I think that the tank on the badge is a very inaccurate portrayal of a British Mk VI Light Tank c 1939. Perhaps the company had a hand in making them? Mike
This is probably muddying the waters, but didn't Finland have some of those Vickers tanks in WW2?
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Old 02-02-18, 12:15 PM
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M & A may stand for 'Mechanisations & Aeros', a British company which made tanks for the Army before and during WW II :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuffie...tions_and_Aero
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Old 02-02-18, 11:21 PM
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That sounds about right Arthur R........thank you.
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How on earth did a country who invented the tank allow it's War Office to degenerate into sending men to fight and die in those awful light tanks,
very clearly "crowd control" on the sub continent was one thing, but, to expect them to take on the wretched Hun just a few years down the line, was something all together different.


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