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Here my latest DDR-BAHNPOLIZEI summer tunic I just got in the mail .
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The interesting sleeve patch . George told me , that he had seen a photo of this type of tunic being worn on the U-Bahn trains in Berlin as the East Germans wanted to prevent people from leaving via the trains to West- Berlin .
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..and the shoulder board . Interesting part here is that the button of the board is a srew type into a base plate inside the shirt and not the normal DDR string tie-down type .
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Per this manufacturer's tag , the shirt was a privat purchase shirt and not just issue .
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At a small Gun Show near St.Louis, MO.last weekend ,I found this nice Volkspolizei Officer's Visor Cap with a white cover for either summertime wear or ,what I think is more correct, for Traffic Control Service .
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,,and you can see the grass -green piping below the very tight fitting white top .
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Interior of the cap is marked : MdI , Size 57 , Maker 1856 , and Y for year 1988 . This agrees with the Berlin newspaper page left in the cap that is dated 6./7.Aug.1988; --just a year and a couple of month before the 'Wende' in Oct.1989 !
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..Well, if you look at the photo of a DDR traffic motor cycle unit posted by George on 04.Aug.2008 , you will see this visor cap being worn by the Officer in the center of the photo !
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The latest item I got is this VOPO Verkehrspolizei BLINKGUERTEL.
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..And the buckle and the first blink light .
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Battery box removed from the plastic pouch .
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Metal plate on the battery box backplate.
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The box held 3 batteries . Upper righthand is a black off and on switch that could be reached through a cutout in the base of the plastic pouch .
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Close-up of resistors and blink mechanism ,
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The orange blinker cap can be unsrewed and also the inside light bulb of 3,2 V.
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Backside of buckle and belt catch end . The electronics are very well done . However , the plastic belt seems to be to weak to hold up for long time use ! Overall , an interesting item !
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Here now latest Vopo outfit ; Visor cap , pants , shirt ,tie and raincoat;---but no tuic !
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..but no tunic ; I wanted to say.
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...slip-on shoulder board.
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..wrist closures inside sleeve .
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Markings inside lefthand interior breast pocket.'L' would stand for the year 1987 .
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Overal coat ; --sorry it is sideways !
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VOPO visor cap is dated to 1972 .
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..upper back of the raincoat.
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One more item :the coat has 3 large size brown plastic front closure buttons , hidden by an interior overlap pocket strip up at the lefthand front closure of the coat .
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Here the interior markings inside the visor cap .
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