'War Department' (arrow) Marking

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Sorry, John, I don’t understand the reference

... I guess there should be an image attached to your post

MichaelG.

Thanks for the information on the watch Dave, interesting.

Bob

Calling it a Pheon is a bit too top drawer for my liking, broad arrow is a more appropriate (militaristic) description. In my circles it was always known as a crows foot.

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You may need to read this, John

**LINK**

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=103028&p=1

... it’s a sort of initiation rite

MichaelG.

After reading through so many previous replies from people having the same problem, surety it would be easier to change the way photos are accepted...Is there a reason it’s done this way?

cheers John

John Hall 7,

re GPO tools.

Very foolishly, I returned all mine except for an Avo8 when I got promoted to a L1 manager in 1980. Then some years later, even more foolishly I passed the Avo onto a colleague.

I also left behind in one city, a Telequipment Storage Oscilloscope for which I was supposedly responsible. I wonder what happened to it.

Peter G. Shaw

GPO tools are now very collectible...a number 6 screwdriver recently went for £31 on EBay...I’ve still got most of mine that remained useful..

Happy days...

Cheers John

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Mine is not to reason why ... I’m just another user

MichaelG.

What is the problem anyway? If I want to upload a photo, I first of all crop/reduce/enlarge/whatever using the software on my computer on a screen which gives me a sufficiently large picture to see what I'm doing. The same software also allows me to save the picture in a number of formats, icluding jpg. I can then upload to the forum. If I then find that the picture is not right, I can delete it, and rework on the screen followed by uploading again. Frankly it doesn't take long.

Peter G. Shaw

I recently bought a surface gauge in a wooden box. As can be seen, it is marked A.M. (Air Ministry 1939) but there is no broad arrow.

Brian

The British Horological Institue may be able to help with identifying this watch. They have recently had a series of articles in the Horological Journal about watches in the Services.

It looks nice. I want one!

Calling it a Pheon sounds too posh for me. Like Brian G and my dear old dad, I have always known it to be a crows foot.

That's because a true Pheon is an heraldic device on aristocratic arms, with the barbs engrailed on the inner edge. Wikipedia says that it's a variant of the Broad Arrow, but I think it's t'other way about, with the Broad Arrow being a variant of the Pheon (no engrailing, see?   ) .

It's military association with longbow-armed soldiery is plain to see - though I always thought they used bodkin points against armoured foes. 'Crows foot' is an OK descriptive name so long as you know it isn't really.

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Edited By Mick B1 on 17/11/2020 09:24:22

This one is a modern copy MWC

This from the Indian army, made by Sword