Identification, please...

[TWGB]

Could I please ask your assistance in identifying the attached badges. If not the "unit", perhaps the county/city/town that the coat of arms on the badge represents in the first four cases?

For size information, if it helps, each picture is approximately 52mm wide x 55mm high.

Badges 1, 2, 5 and 8 are on EW Lugs; Badges 3, 4 and 7 are on sliders; badge 6 is on bendy tabs. All have nice age/patina to them...

Badge 5 is a City of London Collar but I can find no reference to the motto "Thorough".

Badge 8 is the Arms of Ilford. Ilford had at least three VTC units, but I can find no records of how they were badged.

Thanks in anticipation,

Tim

[altcar73]

2. City of Birmingham.
3. Norfolk Joint Police. Should be chrome with two loops, an epaulette badge.
4. London County Council. Should be enamelled with either loops or a slider.

They all look like unfinished factory rejects which have had loops & sliders added later.

Dave.

[TWGB]

Thanks, Dave.

Appreciate the identification.

Not sure they're factory rejects. though; the Birmingham badge has very poor definition, and not a great finish, but the rest are all good clean strikes.

Thanks again, Tim

[Arthur R]

The first shield is the Southall borough council arms, granted in 1936.

http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/middlesex.html

[TWGB]

Thanks, Arthur;

Appreciated!

Tim