TEN HUNN! Regimentals GEDDONNPARAYDAH!

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meako

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These are my 2 of the Rodgers Regimentals series.
A pukkah English SAK rip off if ever there was one.
I believe there are 9 in the series.
A seen here production was taken over by Richards at some stage-be interested to find out more about the age and manufacture of these.
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My only disappointment is that the Ghurka regiment wasn't included -a Khukri version would be legendary.
They probably aren't rare but as an full blood pommy who has been working deep cover in Australia for 43 years I find them interesting and appealing.
cheers.
 
I still can't figure out what the title says, but it looks interesting and the OP has traditional knives in it. Carry on.
 




Interesting knives Meako, and in mint condition I see. Pesonally I thought that it was a shame that the fag-end of the Sheffield cutlery industry had to try and compete with SAKs, and in England, but that was the competition. Produced in the mid to late 70's I think. The Richards stamp is interesting (no sabre grind either, so it might be for another pattern), obviously put together after Rodgers & Wostenholm moved into the Richards factory. Similar knives were also produced with the IXL stamp :thumbup:



These aren't my images, but some I downloaded a couple of years back. I dare say there are more out there :thumbup:
 
MerryMadMonk said:
Am I right, meako? :D
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I'm promoting you to Field Marshall-now put the kettle on there's a good fellow.:D

Unfortunately my R91 came in its original blister pack as shown by Jack. I was nt expecting that and in my inimitable style hacked open the postpack and sliced it pretty much in half. Thankfully the box is OK .
 
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The R10 is a single blade sodbuster type knife that looks like it would kick the doo doos out a lot of SAKs.
I know what you mean Jack .That would have been a tough competition.I'm thinking Barnstoneworth United v present day Man United....but with cutlery industries.
 
meako said:
I know what you mean Jack .That would have been a tough competition.I'm thinking Barnstoneworth United v present day Man United....but with cutlery industries.
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It was just like the Charge of the Light Brigade Meako! :D A great example of the absolute cluelessness of the post-WW2 Sheffield factory owners. Victorinox and Wenger HAD made huge inroads into the British cutlery market, but it was Quixotic to try and take them on DIRECTLY by tooling up to produce a copycat product, and selling it at a slightly cheaper retail price. Sheffield's attempts to modernise came far too late, but if they'd have chosen to try and compete on QUALITY, rather than on PRICE, they might have stood a sniff of a chance in terms of retaining their traditional market. I reckon they probably lost money on the Regimentals.

I have to say, I don't think I've handled one for years, but my thoughts when they came out was that they were very much inferior to the Swiss product, and seemed to be just another ill-thought out idea, like the Ibberson Action range. I'd be interested to hear your assessment of them though my friend, were they just a daft vainglorious adventure, of interest today only to the nostalgic and the collector of cutlery ephemera, or are they better in any way than the Swiss knives, to which they lost out?

And talking of ill-thought out ideas! ...:D

[video=youtube;10dmK7O-KSY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY[/video]
 
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Well you do now dont you my lovely boys?NOW MOVEYERSELVES.
 
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Jack Black said:
It was just like the Charge of the Light Brigade Meako! :D A great example of the absolute cluelessness of the post-WW2 Sheffield factory owners. Victorinox and Wenger HAD made huge inroads into the British cutlery market, but it was Quixotic to try and take them on DIRECTLY by tooling up to produce a copycat product, and selling it at a slightly cheaper retail price. Sheffield's attempts to modernise came far too late, but if they'd have chosen to try and compete on QUALITY, rather than on PRICE, they might have stood a sniff of a chance in terms of retaining their traditional market. I reckon they probably lost money on the Regimentals.

I have to say, I don't think I've handled one for years, but my thoughts when they came out was that they were very much inferior to the Swiss product, and seemed to be just another ill-thought out idea, like the Ibberson Action range. I'd be interested to hear your assessment of them though my friend, were they just a daft vainglorious adventure, of interest today only to the nostalgic and the collector of cutlery ephemera, or are they better in any way than the Swiss knives, to which they lost out?

And talking of ill-thought out ideas! ...:D

[video=youtube;10dmK7O-KSY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY[/video]
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Thanks Jack.

Harry
 
Battery Sgt Maj Williams played by the awesome Windsor Davies.
 
Though I'm on the other side of the pond, I understood the lingo. Six years having mean looking NCOs yell at me speeds up the translation.

The Regimental 40 looks like a nice mix of tools to me.
 
Old Engineer said:
Thanks Jack.
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You're welcome Harry :thumbup:

meako said:
Battery Sgt Maj Williams played by the awesome Windsor Davies.
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While looking for that Youtube clip, I accidentally came across this review of Don 'Lofty' Estelle's autobiography - http://scaryduck.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-worst-book-in-world-don-estelle.html - described as "The worst book in the world"! Totally off topic, but it made me laugh :D

Random quote from Don's book: "We are just so much mashed potato." :confused::rolleyes::D
 
Why a walking stick instead of a swagger-stick, I wonder.
I knew an old collector who had an older swagger-stick with a hidden blade.
 
meako said:
I'm promoting you to Field Marshall-now put the kettle on there's a good fellow.:D

Unfortunately my R91 came in its original blister pack as shown by Jack. I was nt expecting that and in my inimitable style hacked open the postpack and sliced it pretty much in half. Thankfully the box is OK .
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:thumbup: I did the same!
BTW, I find these are real good value for money.
I suppose the R90/*91 were destined to troops intending to invade the Continent, hence the pigtail!

@ Jack Blake :I was sleeping long before the end of the song... :yawn:
 
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Al-Sheffield is where they were made ...once upon a time. Jacks earlier post gives a precis of the rationale behind these knives and sums it up well.
Can you believe that song went to #1 in the British charts.?
 
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