The 1941 Wartime Emergency Truncheon Specification
The 1941 Wartime Emergency Truncheon Specification Why the War Office Had to Compromise When the War Office issued its original truncheon specification in May 1926, it assumed something that would no longer hold true fifteen years later: that exotic hardwoods could be sourced reliably and in sufficient quantity. By 1941, that assumption had collapsed. The… Read More »