Fred,I posted the period advertisement above to point out what I believe is overkill on these machetes. The machetes available for cultivation work were 5-10 cm shorter than the "survival" machetes and they were produced cheaper.Again I ask, why would anyone go to the trouble of ordering the brass fixture blades, or the steel ones, with steel scabbards, for cultivation purposes, when you had the shorter, cheaper version available at about RM 15,- with a leather scabbard? I don't think it economically logical to think these "survival" machetes were exported anywhere.

As to the question of whether the police used emergency supplies on their Flieger-Staffel planes, there is documentation that the police were ordering survival drillings from J.P. Sauer & Sons during the war. The drilling was a component of the survival kit. Ergo, the police provided survival kits on their multi-engine planes.

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Looking for Walther Model 8 #727649
and Walther PP #975557