THE FEW

[John Lever]

Thanks John, and David.
Great photo BTW, looks like a bi- swing back.

 

[m444uk]

What's the date of John's photo ?

I didn't realize a pleated or bi-swing back was introduced so early.

 

[Swing]

This fantasy is quite interesting:

http://www.c-king.jp/mccoypages/mccoyhome.html

B6 B3 meets Irvin.

If I was getting a custom jacket made my spec would be this jacket in aniline brown topcoat/veg tanned shearling.
Change to B3 cuffs and B3 side straps.
Add B6 pockets.

That's a first pattern B-3. The B-3 as we're familiar with it didn't come around until after 1937, IIRC.

~Swing

 

[bristolherc]

http://www.c-king.jp/mccoypages/mccoyhome.html
That's a first pattern B-3. The B-3 as we're familiar with it didn't come around until after 1937, IIRC.

~Swing

Uhmm, I don't quite think so. As the text in the link to the McCoys range on Custom Kings site says, it may be a Test Sample, or as David says, one of the early design studies, in the switch from one-piece suits, to two-piece siuts.

I have some reasonable pictures of a Werber Leather Coat Co. B-3, the earliest of them all, a 35-1545 P, that I grabbed off an eBay auction about two years ago.

The 35-1545 P is rare beast, Mr. Aota Mituhiro, the auther of "Full Gear", lists it as ver. 1, but did not have pictures of it to include in the book. I passed on the details of the auction to him, he may by now have pictures of it, though it was pretty beaten up and patched.

I'll post the pictures I have in the Vintage section, plus some borrowed from "Suit Up!".

BEVAN.

 

[m444uk]

http://www.c-king.jp/mccoypages/mccoyhome.html
That's a first pattern B-3. The B-3 as we're familiar with it didn't come around until after 1937, IIRC.

~Swing

Uhmm, I don't quite think so. As the text in the link to the McCoys range on Custom Kings site says, it may be a Test Sample, or as David says, one of the early design studies, in the switch from one-piece suits, to two-piece siuts.

I have some reasonable pictures of a Werber Leather Coat Co. B-3, the earliest of them all, a 35-1545 P, that I grabbed off an eBay auction about two years ago.

The 35-1545 P is rare beast, Mr. Aota Mituhiro, the auther of "Full Gear", lists it as ver. 1, but did not have pictures of it to include in the book. I passed on the details of the auction to him, he may by now have pictures of it, though it was pretty beaten up and patched.


I'll post the pictures I have in the Vintage section, plus some borrowed from "Suit Up!".

BEVAN.

It's curious B3's after the Werber dropped the underarm gussets.
The RAF and USN realized the benefits.