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| Jings |
Surplus uniforms....Folks,can anyone advise where I'd be able to pick up large(ish) quantities of surplus/used uniforms etc? I've been trying to find the capes used by the band (see below), but they rarely show up anywhere in surplus shops or ebay and the like. 
Similarly I've been looking for the "frock coats" (as below), and I can't turn them up anywhere. 
As I say Im looking for quite a few - somewhere between 50 and 100 - so buying them 1 at a time of ebay (or whatever) is no good as they so rarely appear for sale. Does anyone know what happens to used/surplus items? |
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| admin |
MOD sales is the best place but capes are still used. Frock coats are made for individuals (2-3 per band) so they are very rarely on sales as they are only replaced when they are in a poor state of repair. | ||
| Jings |
Basically I've no chance on the coats, then? BTW By "MOD sales" do you mean these people? http://www.edisposals.com/ Are the uniforms themselves changed much more frequently? There seems to be plenty of them about. |
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| Aaron Aardvark |
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............nice pic Delibulger  Were they desperate choosing you to model that? roflmao 
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| Baaaaaaaaaaass |
IF you come across my cape, gimmie a shout.... | ||
| Jimbo |
you can have mine, waste of space IMHO! | ||
| Baaaaaaaaaaass |
Some tea-leaf had mine away when I was in some war or another. | ||
| RAB |
Well that's what you get for wearing it on nights out in Fife... 
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| Baaaaaaaaaaass |
I was in Raleigh band at the time, so nights out in Fife were few and far between. Thrrrp. | ||
| sticky blue |
Hide your cape's
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| Jings |
boom-tish! |
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| Baaaaaaaaaaass |
Crumbs.
Best offer I've had in a while. |
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| Fearless |
So when I go through the pile of Capes our Unit now has .... and some are very old! What names do I look out for? | ||
| 2nd Clarinet |
On the very old ones look for; HB MBT Joe90 Bootybandy Deli On the newer ones, look for the rest of us....... 
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| bootybandy |
I've still got mine Bob. | ||
| 2nd Clarinet |
Ahhhhh!
So you're the 'Caped Solent Mutton Flasher' mentioned in last weeks Solent Times.
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| 2nd Clarinet |
"You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence" 
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| bootybandy |
There was no pictorial evidence offered Bob, So I got away with it. |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Oh yes there is...........!!!!!!!!!! Reproduced by kind permission of Gosport Police 
you didn't know that tree behind you was really DC Barker from the covert surviellance team. |
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| bootybandy |
"Give a dog a bone" was the family motto  
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Down, Shep...down.
Away Shep....Away...... Come by......Come by!!! Bring those little lambs to me Shep..... Come by! |
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| Fearless |
Thank God that wasn't a Kangaroo!
Off to check the names in the beloved Capre mostly EA Regiment; but some other! |