2019年6月12日 · The 58 pattern webbing set was the mainstay of the British Army throughout the Cold War and although we have covered odd pieces on the blog before, a recent purchase of a nice clean set of webbing has given the opportunity to go back and look at the set as a whole and then study the missing components not previously covered.

2013年10月29日 · The SADF decided to copy the British pattern 58 webbing and call it pattern 61. The copy was however not 100% as per the pattern 58as some variations were included. In 1964, a review was done to the pattern 61 and thereafter it was called pattern 64. Patterns 61 and 64 were used side by side until all stocks of pattern 61 were depleted.

1958 pattern web equipment [1] [2] was a modular personal equipment system issued to the British Armed Forces from 1959 [1] up until the mid 90s. It replaced the 1937 pattern web equipment that had served the UK's Armed Forces through the Second World War and the first decade of the Cold War and also the 1944 pattern webbing which was used in ...

Pattern 58 webbing was designed in the 1950s the idea being it would be more suitable for mechanised infantry than p37 and p44 which was to cause problems later in the Falklands war which was not a mechanised war, it was issued in 1960 but it was to take some years before it totally replaced all the p37 and p44, the designers of p58 assumed ...

2023年10月27日 · The Pattern 61/64 web gear was a close knockoff of the British Pattern 58. This piece of kit is for storing your rolled up ground sheet. It also has a pocket across the top for storing the metal head of the SADF issued entrenching tool which was a pick mattock.

2015年10月15日 · For the description of the pack, we turn to the 1959 Instructions for Assembling Web Equipment Pattern 1958 published by The War Office: Pack. This is approximately 17 inches wide and 14 inches deep, with 5 inch gussets: The pack opens at the top and is closed by a flap secured by two straps and buckles.

2013年3月10日 · So after doing a lot of research about what webbing the Rhodies used in the bush war I was very pleasantly surprised that Pattern 58 webbing was commonly used (heavily modified of course) along with Pattern 37, Pattern 64, …

2019年6月26日 · The 58 pattern webbing set replaced the small pack with a pair of linked rear pouches, that soon became universally known as kidney pouches: The 1965 ‘Instructions for Assembly’ describes the pouches as:

2013年10月29日 · History of SADF pattern 1970 webbing. Before going into the army in 1966, I acquired a set of SADF issue webbing which was called Pattern 61/64 and which had been based on the British Pattern 58 webbing. Having always been a collector of webbing and uniforms, I started modifying the set, to my own design, for my use when I got called up.