ACF Lapel Badges - £2 Per 100

[BWEF]

Those were the days, ACF lapel badges on sale at £2 Per 100.

From "The Cadet Journal" for May 1944.

[BWEF]

& here is the badge.

[Sonofacqms]

Would this be for the plastic or metal enamelled badges?

[Jibba Jabba]

I could of done you a similar deal on RAF and WRAC stay bright badges when I cleared out a military tailor a few years ago. Ten pounds for box full of tissue wrapped WRAC badges. A seven day listing on eBay and one maiden bid of a tenner secured the lot

[Unknownsoldier]

I had a similar opportuniy about 10 years ago, a dealer had about 3000 plastic cap badges from KRRC to Para's and ACC, price 1p each!!!!!! And I said no thanks, nobody is collecting those, dummy!!!!!! I was only 12 at the time though.

Tom

[Jibba Jabba]

I wouldnt feel bad about staybright Tom, most people thought that it was rubbish including myself. I know some dealers who you could offer some of those 300 pound pieces to for 30 pounds and they would probably ask you to move on.

[Unknownsoldier]

Wasn't staybrite, it was proper WW2 plastic economy! :-( Feel like a prize lemon now I do.

I agree on staybrite though, most was so badly mangled it wasn't worth touching.

Tom

[Mike]

so when was this one in use: "British National Cadets" ?

[BWEF]

I had never heard of them, but a quick google shows that they were going strong in the 1930s, although the source does not say exactly what they were.

"As is usual in the Spring Term, cadet activities have been limited to a certain extent by light and weather. It is therefore gratifying to find that, in those activities which have been possible, much enthusiasm has been shown, possibly because any of the weaker brethren fell out during the transition from Royal Engineers to British National Cadets. The band has been specially keen, as their two and three practices a week would suggest, and we are sure that Camp standards are being maintained."

From "The Pharos", magazine of the Dover County School for Boys, March 1931:

http://www.dovergrammar.co.uk/archiv...os/No-066.html

[BWEF]

I have done a bit more research.

It looks as if the British National Cadets existed from 1930, when the Government withdrew funding from the Cadet Force, until later in the 1930s when a Government worried by the rise of Hitler restored financial backing to the Cadet Force.

See this history:

http://www.lancashirearmycadets.com/...f_the_acf.html

[Mike]

Originally Posted by BWEF

I have done a bit more research.

It looks as if the British National Cadets existed from 1930, when the Government withdrew funding from the Cadet Force, until later in the 1930s when a Government worried by the rise of Hitler restored financial backing to the Cadet Force.

See this history:

http://www.lancashirearmycadets.com/...f_the_acf.html

nice find BWEF, good potted history of the cadets. so lapel in use 1930s only.