WW2 Siebe Gorman London Royal Navy /ARP Emergency Escape Goggles

WW2 Siebe Gorman London Royal Navy /ARP Emergency Escape Goggles.

These formed an integral part of the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd. They were primarily intended as an emergency escape apparatus for submarine crews.

This set are clearly embossed on the central nose bridge 'Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd Makers London. The orange rubber is in excellent pliable condition with no perishing and the elastic and leather back strap is VGC. The glass lenses are again VGC with no damage or fogging.

These goggles were also used by the ARP as part of the fire service breathing set but used by other civil defence personnel as dust and smoke goggles.

Code: 210