Helmets Ltd 1935 This is one of the first fire helmets made by Helmets Ltd and is one of a batch of only 100 made for the London Fire Brigade for evluation in 1935.
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Helmets Ltd, F535 NFBA Another rare helmet built to a specification written by the Home Office it was supplied mainly to Military Fire Brigades and did not find wide acceptance with public fire brigades. |
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Helmets Ltd, 2320 Middlesex The 2320 was the earlier version of the F335 Middlesex helmet. This helmet was one of the most popular produced by Helmets Ltd along with the LFB pattern. |
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Helmets Ltd, F435 Arden Another of Helmets Ltd's less popular helmets. Like the Telbon the Arden found its main market in Commonwealth countries. Earlier versions where known as 2170 (black) or 1170 (red). |
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Helmets Ltd 2010 LFB pattern Along with the Middlesex pattern the LFB was probably the most popular Helmets Ltd fire helmet until bothe were overtaken by the County. The LFB was designed specificaly for the London Fire Brigade but was taken up by many other brigades.
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Helmets Ltd, 2221 The 2221 is another rare Helmets Ltd product. It is the direct forrunner of the County model and was only in production under the 2221 designation for a short while before, with a slight re-design, it became the County.
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Helmets Ltd, 3871 The 3871 was a new concept in fire helmet design, taking advantage of new plastic materiels and techniques. The shell was a sandwich of fibreglass, bonded cork crumbs and plastic. However it was very unpopular with firefighters and was soon dropped from the product line.
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Helmets Ltd, County F135 The County has probably been the most popular Helmets Ltd helmet in the entire cork helmet range. |
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Helmets Ltd, Firepro The Firepro one was a second attempt to update their fire helmet design. Essetially the same as the 3871 in construction but with a more conventional shape. However it, like it's predessor, was not taken up by many fire brigades. |
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Helmets Ltd, Firepro II A redesign of the Firepro to a more conventional shape but it didn't improve the models popularity. Fitted with F404/5 visor (F404/4 short visor used mainly on F500 helmets and the F404/6 was a Airport style bubble visor) |
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1990 Helmets Ltd. County F135 Assistant Divisional Officer's helmet
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Helmets Ltd, F500 The F500 marks the end of the cork helmet. This was a helmet made entirely from plastics and heralded new design in head protection. |
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1990 County F135 London Fire Brigade firefighter's helmet
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Helmets Ltd, F600 The F600 was designed to compete directly with the Gallet F1 and has proved to be fairly popular with British fire brigades.
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Cromwell ER1/FR2 System Helmets Intergrated Systems latest inovation, an Emergency/Rescue helmet that converts to a Fire/Rescue helmet by clipping on an outer shell. |
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1958 Cromwell 2030 Another rarely seen Helmets Ltd. Helmet, the 2030 shares features of both the 2122 and the F535 (NFBA). |
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1948 Cromwell 2030 A very early version of the 2030 made by Helmets Ltd for the uniform manufacturer J Compton, Sons & Webb Ltd, who supplied the Fire Brigade of the newly formed British Railways with uniforms. Like Merryweather & Sons J Compton's sold a range of helmets, including crash helmets and police helmets under their own name but manufactured by Helmets Ltd. |
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1950 Arden USA This helmet was found in the USA and supposedly used by a firefighter of the BPC Volunteer Fire Dept. in Kooskia, Idaho. Not only is it rare for a British helmet to have been used in North America but the helmet itself is odd. It is a MkII Arden but with a Nylon/Rexine liner as used in the later Cromwell helmets as well as having a "button-in" chin strap (missing) found on earlier helmets. |
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1977 London Salvage Corps A variant on the Cromwell County F135 helmet, having reduced side brims as well as the facility to attach a visor (blanking plates cover the holes).
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1935 Cromwell Junior 1935 Cromwell Junior ICI Works Brigade |
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1983 County 1983 County Humberside Fire Brigade
Humberside Fire Brigade was formed in 1974 and became Humberside Fire & Rescue Service in 1985. The Helmet is a varient on the standard County model being pre-drilled to take a visor (the holes are blanked with the maker's blanking plate) |
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1946 Cromwell 2240 Telbon British Helmets Ltd Cromwell 2240 with laced-in head suspension. Private Fire Brigade |
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1951 British Army Fire Service Cromwell NFBA
Used by the fire services of all branches of the British military. |
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1965 Cromwell F135 County Britain Grampian Fire Brigade MkII F135 County, this was the first F135 to have the new plastic inner shell. From 1965 to 1968 these shell were made of smooth green plastic without any size or date stamp the later MkIII had a textured green inner shell and the stampings. |
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1971 County Cumbria County Fire Service, UK Helmets Ltd This is one of the first MkIII County style helmets. It was manufactured in 1971 although it did not go into service until 1974 (when CCFS was formed). |
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1982 Cromwell Middlesex F335 Britain States of Jersey Fire Service
Jersey is a Crown Dependency with self government and an independent Judiciary. It is not, however, totally independent from the UK. |
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1986 County 1986 Essex County Fire & rescue Service
Helmets Ltd. Cromwell County F135 |
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1994 Cromwell F135 Britain Buckinhamshire Fire and Rescue Service MkIII F135, the County was the last Cromwell cork helmet to be manufactured and the very last ones were made in June 1995 |
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1974 Dublin Fire Brigade Ireland Cromwell County F135 variant. Many of the F135s supplied to Irish Brigades had a squared-off comb rather than the standard rounded one. |
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1964 Cromwell F135 Variant Queensland Fire Service Australia 1964 variant of the F135 County. This version has the early plastic inner shell but in white not green and a very early version of the "poppered" head suspension made of leather not leatherette as all other versions are. |
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1979 Cromwell F135 1979 Devon Fire & Rescue Service Britain
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1983 Cromwell F135 1983 Humberside Fire Brigade Britain |
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1985 Cromwell FirePro Republic of Ireland Irnrod Eireann (Irish Railways) Fire Service. |
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1995 Cromwell County F135 Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service This is one of the last cork shell helmets made for the British fire services. Helmets Integrated Systems Ltd (Helmets Ltd) stopped production of these helmets in July or 1995. |
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1987 Cromwell Middlesex F335 West Midlands County Fire Service, UK
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2001 Cromwell Echo British Royal Navy Submarine Service Helmets Integrated Systems Ltd. Cromwell F1001 Echo. Designed for close quarters fire fighting with built-in 16 channel radio comms. |
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1982 ICI Cromwell County ICI Refinery Fire Service A standard F135 County helmet fitted with a Cromwell F404/6 Airport Service visor for close proximity fire fighting. |
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I am always happy to email pictures and information of any of the helmets in my collection on request.