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Title: Please tell me about this photo
Post by: justontime on Sunday 15 April 12 14:57 BST (UK)
Please can you tell me about this photo. Was it after WW1? What did the the logo on the lorry mean? Thank you.
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Post by: japeflakes on Sunday 15 April 12 15:16 BST (UK)
The crest of the 'National Scheme for Disabled Men', indicating the firm's undertaking to employ an approved percentage of disabled ex-service men. Schemes such as the 'National Scheme for Disabled Men', were formed to
encourage businesses to employ, wherever possible, disabled veterans of the First World War (1914 -1918)
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Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 15 April 12 17:15 BST (UK)
The guy top left appears to be wearing "Hospital Blues".

http://www.photodetective.co.uk/Blues.html


Carol
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Post by: justontime on Sunday 15 April 12 19:05 BST (UK)
Thank you Treetotal and japeflakes, it is the man top left that I am interested in. If it is who I think it is, he was wounded in WW1 (1918). How old would you say the man top left was? William Buswell (the person I think it was) was born in 1881 so he would have been close to 40 in this photo, does that look about right?
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Post by: IgorStrav on Sunday 15 April 12 19:57 BST (UK)
Before reading your comment about date of birth, I was going to say he looked in his thirties, so that would be about right.
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Post by: justontime on Sunday 15 April 12 20:06 BST (UK)
Thank you IgorStrav
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Post by: jim1 on Sunday 15 April 12 20:07 BST (UK)
Not hospital blues,these are overalls.I would say post WW1.The tiepin was made popular during WW1 by the RFC & became mainstream afterwards & into the 20's.

jim
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Post by: justontime on Sunday 15 April 12 20:41 BST (UK)
Thank you Jim.
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Post by: Lydart on Sunday 15 April 12 21:14 BST (UK)
What tiepin ??    Do I need to go to SpecS****s ??
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Post by: justontime on Sunday 15 April 12 21:37 BST (UK)
Lydart, thank you for asking that, I thought it was just me that had missed something! I looked but I couldn't see a tiepin.
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Post by: IgorStrav on Sunday 15 April 12 21:38 BST (UK)
The man on the top right's holding something...........................oh, no, that's a screwdriver  ::)
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Post by: japeflakes on Sunday 15 April 12 21:43 BST (UK)
Is it right at the bottom of the tie?  Not sure
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Post by: IgorStrav on Sunday 15 April 12 21:48 BST (UK)
Isn't that the fastening of the boiler suit?

Come on, Jim, where are you when you're wanted?
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Post by: japeflakes on Sunday 15 April 12 21:51 BST (UK)
In that case.... it must match the tie VERY well !!
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Post by: jim1 on Monday 16 April 12 08:18 BST (UK)
OK. I meant a collar pin.
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Post by: justontime on Monday 16 April 12 09:55 BST (UK)
Wow Jim, you have really sharp eyes. I really couldn't see anything, but having looked again I can tell that there must be something either side of the knot of the tie holding the collar down.