halfwit Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 A strange question I know, but does anyone know when orange shoulder panels appeared on donkey jackets? (those tough short black coats favoured by those working outdoors). A search on google was unsuprisingly unhelpfull. I'm painting some Dapol railway workers at the moment you see... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28XX Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 encouraged many manufacturers to design lots of things we didn't know we couldn't do without. On the roads I'd say late '70's. On rail not until the early '80's cos we had the mini-vests to go over the top. Probably sectorization / privatization produced wholesale changes like this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 27, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2012 As far as I'm aware, and certainly not in Railtrack days and subsequently, donkey jackets with hi-vis patches or whatever are not an acceptable form of h-v clothing and I'm fairly sure the same applied in BR times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 27, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2012 At Birmingham New Street in 1966 there was an experiment with white donkey jackets, I think with reflective shoulders, for signalling fault teams when going into the tunnels under traffic and elsewhere in darkness. They lasted about 3 weeks before they were dirty grey. Sometime in the late 1960s they were replaced with donkey jackets with orange shoulders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I think they came in around the mid-seventies. Certainly the miners' ones where I lived were plain black with NCB on the back but I can remember seeing the orange patched version around then, even though plain black was the norm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold mikes rail Posted January 27, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2012 If its any help we had orange panels on the jackets we were issued with when I started work 34 years ago for a local council Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Singpoint Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 LTE started issuing donkey jackets with orange shoulder panels around 1978. On joining BR I was issued with a pea jacket which from memory was a lot warmer than a donkey jacket. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfwit Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Many thanks for the replies. I honestly thought that this topic would be too obscure, even by my standards, to get much attention! So, mid to late seventies onwards. Now to find some orange paint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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