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    That Nasty Little "Flying DAF" Pronged Badge !


    Guest Rick Research

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    Guest Rick Research

    When I were a lad, I had a stamped metal insignia as shown in the photo below, with wide heavy, needlessly heavy prongs. They were fairly common--and in 1970s Wisdom roundly declared to be fantasy pieces! :angry::banger:

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    Guest Rick Research

    Needless to say, after 40+ years, finally turned up a photo of the wretched thing being worn!

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    Mustabeen Himmler's cousin.... :whistle::hitler:

    From the Red Cross style sleeve seniority srtripes and rest of the get-up, apparently a 20 year veteran of the city streetcar/trolley car service!

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    I am guessing from the Foghorn Leghorn (griffin?) insignia and "St St W" that this was St(adt) St(.) W(endel)...?

    All it has is a 1942 dated inscription "to my godchild."

    Enigma: if the guy was only a MUNICIPAL employee, what's he doing wearing a REICHS cockade on a CITY uniform? And if it's a CITY COLORS cockade... what the...!!!???

    Somebody let this guy join the Nazi Party! :speechless1:

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    Eric: alas no-- print quality's only good enough to detect something vaguely elongated X-ish shaped... or with those sorts of angles. It's not a great photo and I paid a demented amount just to finally eliminate this particular buried-deep niggling puzzle.

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    • 2 weeks later...

    http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2013/post-15855-0-13437500-1372005355.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_06_2013/post-15855-0-22779000-1372005380.jpgGuys,

    I'm new here but I got this from house clearance last year I think.

    It looks well enough made and to be honest it was going in the skip if I hadn't grabed it.

    Jock:)

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    Hello Rick.

    I have one of these streetcar badges too.

    Oddly enough, for a civil municipal organisation, it's RZM marked. RZM M1/53 for Wegerhoff.

    Presumably because it was affiliated to Ley's DAF.

    Mine is nickel-plated tombak, with the swastika and cog 'cut out'.

    That photo is the first one I've seen of this badge being worn.

    Thanks for posting !!

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    I had an RZM marked... Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross when I was 12. There was a lot of weird stuff floating around back in the 1960s! :o:cheeky:

    I think mine had a cut out swastika, but no mark at all. Weird to think how many tram drivers insignia were brought back yet nobody ever knew what they were!

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    :Cat-Scratch: WOW! He must have been an Über-straßenbahnführer!!!!!

    Has that got the big nasty flat pins that would have shredded a cap front? (Wonder what COLORS those caps were....)

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    Ayuh, I'd assume a dark blue civilian-ish outfit like postmen... but what was the "Waffenfarbe" for the hatband and piping?

    Somebody MUST have one of these hats!

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    The RZM Wegerhoff ................. with cut-outs .....................

    Even the electric tram lightning bolts are cut out. ;)

    Wow, nice badge. I have never seen one. Interesting thread.

    kind regards,

    Sam K.

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