Visited the Moreland shop right to the end but was more often used the Edinburgh shop. I think I have an aluminium non-stick mug somewhere with plastic lip.
I can't see any images.. am I missing something?You are most welcome. I hope they are legible? I compressed them all to "website" setting but they look a bit blurred to me (even with my glasses on). If needs-be, I can re-post but in batches.
Hi, may be my lack of technical knowledge but I can't seem to find the images?Some members have expressed an interest in this company from back in the 1980s. Here are the catalogue pages that I still have, showing what was introduced onto the UK market back then. Many of these items are still on the market.
Enjoy..
Yep, they certainly opened a portal to another world of US-made gear and 'special forces' issue kit that nobody had really ever seen before - all perfectly timed to cater for the UK's 1980s craze for all matters-survival.Many thanks Brewkit. Wonderfully nostalgic.... it's quite surprising how advanced the gear was almost 40 years ago.
Compare that with the gear that was around 40 years back from '82 and I guess it illustrates the huge advances that took place postwar and into the jet/microchip/transistor etc age
Thanks for being considerate, I'd much rather you took things down if you were worried than risk it, a lot less hassle.Hi...apologies, I took them down after seeing a mention of copyright in another thread. However, after further thought, and as they are almost 40 years old now and the company is long done, it should hopefully be ok! Let me re-post them, as clearly there is more interest!
...'Tis done Sire!
Ok and thanks. I guess it might be different if they were still operating, but then we wouldn't be swapping (mostly) good memories about them on this thread!Thanks for being considerate, I'd much rather you took things down if you were worried than risk it, a lot less hassle.
Yes, there are loads of old 80's catalogues like Argos' available online. Not sure where they stand in terms of intellectual property (copyright) and imagine that maybe the same parameters don't apply as for any original written word etc.Ok and thanks. I guess it might be different if they were still operating, but then we wouldn't be swapping (mostly) good memories about them on this thread!
Hi...apologies, I took them down after seeing a mention of copyright in another thread. However, after further thought, and as they are almost 40 years old now and the company is long done, it should hopefully be ok! Let me re-post them, as clearly there is more interest!
...'Tis done Sire!
Used to go to the shop in Penrith every thing seamed ??? so expensive but no one else was offering serious expedition kit - when they manufactured the metal mug with the separate plastic lip protector now this really was life changing kit
That catalogue was drooled over as an army cadet back then. Here's some bits I still have including the shemagh it sits on. Wish I had saved the catalogues too.
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