survival aids artic ranger ventile jacket

[outDoor68]

hello . i m a new member of this forum , i m new to using the correct thread to post my wants so i will start her
i m looking for a royal navy ventile jacket 1950/60s.., or a survival aids 1980s artic ranger ventile jacket i belive this brand < survival aids > was a company that made for sas sometimes ????? .. anyway i m looking for one and also blacks of greenock , search and resecue british arm smock colour orange ,, i prefer the survival aids first ,, as i m a keen rambler ,,,, my size is a mens 44 chest ,, i had a artic ranger before but it got worn out ,, so i want to replace it if any one can help i would be most happy to buy thanx again for reading my post cheers matt

 

[janso]

Welcome and good jacket from what I remember. Didn't a firm called SASS also do ventile's in the late '80's? Unsure about the colours though but OG, black and DPM were normally the range of most kit.


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[outDoor68]

thanx i will look on the internet for that company thanx and shhhhhhhh

 

[British Red]

SASS made very few true Ventile jackets, although they did make some more in "Ventile like material". When I say very few, I think you can count them on the fingers of one hand. They made them in the 2008 ish period because they got half a commercial roll of Ventile in a deal. As far as I recall one guy had a jacket and trousers made, I had an SAS smock made to fit and there was enough material for one more. They are not making more in any material I believe.

 

[Macaroon]

SASS made very few true Ventile jackets, although they did make some more in "Ventile like material". When I say very few, I think you can count them on the fingers of one hand. They made them in the 2008 ish period because they got half a commercial roll of Ventile in a deal. As far as I recall one guy had a jacket and trousers made, I had an SAS smock made to fit and there was enough material for one more. They are not making more in any material I believe.

Now that's a very interesting post indeed; I recently bought a smock which was sold to me as an SASS Ventile, when it arrived the label had been removed from inside. I had no reason to doubt the veracity of what I'd been told but this information puts things in a new light. The smock doesn't perform as I'd expected Ventile to do so I'd be really very interested to know what the "Ventile like material" actually is?

Any information at all on this would be more than welcome!

 

[British Red]

PM sent. .

 

[Macaroon]

And received, thanks for the response

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

I had an sass ventile type smock made, i was informed it was off a partial roll that performed as per ventile. It was standard sas format, no frills, olive green. It wasnt my bag and sold it on ebay, some guy in australia got a great deal! I didn't like how stiff the material went in the wet and it was made on the small size. Excellent in dry cold weather tho. I still have another plain green sass smock with a few design tweaks in olive green gabardine. Same as original sas smocks. Its much better, dries quicker, softer, doesnt go stiff in the rain. Got on a lot better with it. I don't know how many ventile type were made, i nearly had a pair of trousers to match.

The survival aids ventile ranger smock thingy, lovely, wish i could find one!

 

[swotty]

I have an SASS smock but its Gaberdine which when I had it made I was told was left over from a run of jackets they were making for the Canadian army, not as heavy duty as ventile but a fantastic jacket all the same!

Blimey...there's one for sale on EBay for £499!!! Surely not!

 

[Limaed]

Matt, there's no such thing as a Search and Rescue British Army Smock - for a start the British Army has never had any SAR units. The RAF MRT's were issued with an overhead or zipped smock in the seventies in red or orange which I think you are referring to. They're pretty rare though as they had a very hard life so I think very few would have survived. By the eighties cotton windproofs were being replace by first generation Gore-Tex. These were made by commercial firms rather than government contract.

 

[wildrover]

.... I had an SAS smock made to fit and there was enough material for one more....

I think I maybe got the last one if that's the case. 40th Birthday present at the time. Spoke to them about additional features etc and really enjoyed Paul's (I think) chat about they're products and the type of customers they dealt with.
Fantastic jacket. My absolute favourite. Its a real shame they're not still avaliable.

 

[British Red]

May well have been so, I know Space monkey got the first. As you say, superb garments.

 

[SCOMAN]

I had one of the SASS ones made from the Ventile-like material. I sold it on here about five years ago I can't remember who too. It was a nice jacket and I love the style but I went for an Arktis smock and so sold the SASS one on. Great jacket but not as waterproof as I'd like. It makes me laugh when I see people coveting the Royal Navy flight deck crew stuff and the price on eBay. Most of the chock heads I knew hated it and when I was serving in the ARK ROYAL most Barbour waxed them in an effort to stay dry.