Mk VII

That foregrip looks very slab-sided - one of the many replica ones made over the years.

Somebody tried centre-punching this one, presumably to tighten it up

Looks like he valued his privacy. No wonder they didnt find him for days.

Looks like a first-aid dressing to me.

Huge amounts of these seem to have been procured, and never used. They were very common up to a few years ago.

This was one of a number training films which Associated British Pathe made, mostly aimed at the Home Guard. The voice of Bob Danvers Walker, so often a commentator for Pathe.

Looks like you wear it round the neck halter style, like the Utility pouches. Can you pass a strap behind the sewn-on bit?

He'd better have something more than just the liner to protect his head.

Roger Corman, who has died aged 98, with a Thompson during the filming of Bloody Mama, based loosely on the Ma Barker story. The enlarged hole in the end of the Cutts betrays the blank-firing choke incorporated in it.

quality is not great but the reproduction print may be all that survives.

Here ya go ...

Won't get much protection from that liner-only helmet.

Daub your Thompson you must.

Pardon Us was a take-off of the Wallace Beery movie The Big House, and the antagonist looks rather similar to Wallace Beery. The same gun, with the rather obvious attachment to make it work with blanks, seems to have been used in both.

I've got one of these. They are usually rather tight fit. They come in 'magazine fitted' and 'no magazine' varieties and the stock system does not appear to have differentiated between them.