Early Pattern Wilkinson Sword Survival Knives

[wildrover]

We all know the Wilkinson Sword Type D and Dartmoor knifes.

However does anyone have any info. or pictures on the early pattern Wilky knives.

I'm sure I saw pictures on here or it might have been BB (I've asked there as well).
I have searched, but as yet no luck.

Might have been GrahamS or rappleby2000?

Any info. thankfully received.

Ta
Chris

 

[pwb]

Rappleby 2000 put a great pic up here:
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54971&p=671442#post671442

 

[wildrover]

Thanks for that.

I had found that thread.
It was more the earlier patterns I was looking for.

Cheers
Chris

 

[pwb]

Sorry Chris ,
Nice knives though .

 

[Graham_S]

Don't think it was me, I've got a type D (rescued from an ejection seat when they were replaced with swiss army knives), but I don't remember posting any photos.

 

[bikething]

Found the following piccy in "Survival" edited by Len Cacutt... not a lot more info about them in there, apart from the WS survival knife.

 

[JonathanD]

Found the following piccy in "Survival" edited by Len Cacutt... not a lot more info about them in there, apart from the WS survival knife.

I remember drooling over that picture as a kid. I sooo wanted the Wilky Survival. Every magazine you picked up back then raved about how great it was. How times change.

 

[Graham_S]

I remember a survival knife test in "combat and survival" magazine.
The Type D review said something along the lines of "big and solid, and you can chop a tree down with one if you're not in a hurry"

 

[JonathanD]

I remember a survival knife test in "combat and survival" magazine.
The Type D review said something along the lines of "big and solid, and you can chop a tree down with one if you're not in a hurry"

I still have those mags up in the loft. I should get them down and have a day of nostalgic reading.

 

[bikething]

I remember drooling over that picture as a kid. I sooo wanted the Wilky Survival. Every magazine you picked up back then raved about how great it was. How times change.

me too.. by the time I could afford one and got round to finding a shop that sold them, it had evolved into the 'Dartmoor' .. so I bought one of those instead..

I did eventually manage to pick up a used WS survival knife a couple of years ago... just for the nostalgia of it

could never figure out why a "survival" knife needed a bottle opener though

 

[JonathanD]

me too.. by the time I could afford one and got round to finding a shop that sold them, it had evolved into the 'Dartmoor' .. so I bought one of those instead..

I did eventually manage to pick up a used WS survival knife a couple of years ago... just for the nostalgia of it

Ditto, I did exactly the same thing.

 

[wildrover]

Sorry Chris ,
Nice knives though .

Behave yer self
And yes very nice knives

Chris

 

[wildrover]

Don't think it was me, I've got a type D (rescued from an ejection seat when they were replaced with swiss army knives), but I don't remember posting any photos.

Sorry Graham
I remembered from some of you previous posts that you had mentioned your RAF connections and leaped from there

 

[wildrover]

Found the following piccy in "Survival" edited by Len Cacutt... not a lot more info about them in there, apart from the WS survival knife.

Bikething,
Superb stuff ( I love the collective knowledge on this Forum)
Thats the very pic I was looking for.

Does anyone actually know the spec of the knives?
Or even better, has anyonehandled/used one?

As for Combat and Survival Mags, I'm sure a lot of us on here have had (have) a collection of these "excellent" publications

Chris

 

[pwb]

Seem to remember reading some where that the second from the top with the brown handle was a Jungle knife.

 

[shaggystu]

Seem to remember reading some where that the second from the top with the brown handle was a Jungle knife.

'tis.

iirc there were two articles in combat and survival magazine following on from one another, firstly "choosing your survival knife" then "using your survival knife". the photos in "choosing your survival knife" still bring me out in a cold sweat, it's like a catalogue of small boys fantasy knifes!

someone asked earlier what use is a bottle opener on a survival knife, the first thing that springs to mind is stripping bark from tree roots, i'm sure there's lots of other uses as well.

cheers

stuart

 

[pwb]

Looks like I've given the game away as having been a Combat and Survival reader too .

 

[John Fenna]

As for Combat and Survival Mags, I'm sure a lot of us on here have had (have) a collection of these "excellent" publications

Chris

Look carefully through your collection and you will see some gear reviews by ME!
Read em? - I wrote for them!

 

[shaggystu]

Look carefully through your collection and you will see some gear reviews by ME!
Read em? - I wrote for them!

i tried doing that very thing when i heard that you'd written for them, but upon opening issue one i rediscovered the small boy excitment for all things military that i must have left in there, and spent the rest of the day playing "top-trumps" with the APC's! happy days.

we were talking about C&S magazine at northwood last weekend, i've never been sure but i reckon that mr. mears was a contributer at some point, i'm sure that some of the photo's in "survival by raymond mears" originally appeared in the weekly C&S magazine. incidentally, one of the reasons i got a copy of "survival" was the review in the monthly C&S magazine.

cheers

stuart

 

[bikething]

incidentally, one of the reasons i got a copy of "survival" was the review in the monthly C&S magazine.

I never bought C&S as a magazine - I bought this book, and it's companion volume "Combat" from a discount book shop many years ago. I've since got the impression that the books were in fact a collection of articles from C&S magazine!

IIRC the page that picture was on was between 2 sections titled "choosing your survival knife" and "using your survival knife" .. funny that

The section on "using your survival knife" featured the WS Survival knife pretty exclusively, and the photos of gralloching a deer contained someone dressed in DPM, with trainers , and the obligatory square of black gaffa tape over his eyes, who looked rather like a young Ray Mears