SCARCE New Zealand Made 1941 Dated Mark 2 BRODIE Steel Helmet 100% ORIGINAL

Description

Although several versions of the Mark 2 Brodie helmet were manufactured here in New Zealand in WW2
This was the ONLY type that was Nation Manufacture ID'd ONLY 54,000 were ever made and VERY FEW STILL EXIST
Dated internally 1941 with New Zealand manufacture markings "nPz"
The liner and chinstrap are both original to the helmet's WW2 era manufacture
New Zealand
Helmet, Steel, Mark II
In 1940, an order for 30,000 steel helmets could not be fulfilled by the United Kingdom, so production commenced in New Zealand.
Manufactured by
General Motors
(New Zealand) and the New Zealand Railway Workshops using presses and sheet steel imported from Australia.
54,000 Mark II had been made by 1942 (Completed with Australian and British supplied liners used)
Surplus "nPz" helmets were supplied to other Commonwealth and Empire armies
The Brodie helmet
is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie.
The term Brodie is often misused.
It is correctly applied only to the original 1915 Brodie's Steel Helmet, War Office Pattern.
A modified form of it became the Helmet, Steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the U.S.
Colloquially, it was called the shrapnel helmet, battle bowler, Tommy helmet, tin hat, and in the United States the doughboy helmet.
It was also known as the dishpan hat, tin pan hat, washbasin, battle bowler (when worn by officers), and Kelly helmet.
The German Army called it the Salatschüssel (salad bowl).
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