Vintage googles

[planecrazy]

Recently acquired these, not for sale but wondering if someone maybe able
to date them, hoping they are WW I fighter pilots googles!!!?? Thank you.

[shorty]

I think they may be tankies goggles?

[kiwiwreckdiver]

Yes they look a lot like Tankers/dispatch riders googles

[Dave Homewood]

Are they goggles or googles?

[Luther Moore]

Post it here, they will know. www.warrelics.eu/forum/

[davidd]

This seems to have been a common style of goggles, based on my work in cataloguing uniforms and working clothing, including flying clothing and accessories at the RNZAF Museum in 1990s and up to about 2005. These goggles were manufactured from (probably) some time in WW1 (if not before) and certainly during the 1920s and 1930s. Remember that early aviators originally relied on "motoring" or "motor cycle" goggles, as these were readily available and were up to the job, and were not too expensive, being already mass-produced. Also worth mentioning that certain firms (in UK?) are still producing copies of the RAF "Mk. VIII" flying goggles, which originally came out in about 1942 or 43; the modern ones usually have chrome plating, etc, and are used by motor cyclists and vintage car enthusiasts, so what goes round, comes around!
David D

[davidd]

This seems to have been a common style of goggles, based on my work in cataloguing uniforms and working clothing, including flying clothing and accessories at the RNZAF Museum in 1990s and up to about 2005. These goggles were manufactured from (probably) some time in WW1 (if not before) and certainly during the 1920s and 1930s. Remember that early aviators originally relied on "motoring" or "motor cycle" goggles, as these were readily available and were up to the job, and were not too expensive, being already mass-produced. Also worth mentioning that certain firms (in UK?) are still producing copies of the RAF "Mk. VIII" flying goggles, which originally came out in about 1942 or 43; the modern ones usually have chrome plating, etc, and are used by motor cyclists and vintage car enthusiasts, so what goes round, comes around! Of course goggles for tank crews could be very similar (why re-invent the wheel?),but it would be very difficult to ascertain exactly how old these goggles are, or when or for what purpose they were originally manufactured. The metal frames of these goggles were originally made of brass I think, or perhaps nickled steel, but elastic straps of the type fitted on this example was probably more typical of the WW2 period. Unless there are some decypherable markings, etc, on the goggles somewhere, it is unlikely that such goggles can be accurately dated or pinned down as to actual use. They could have been produced for the civilian market for instance.
David D

[kiwiwreckdiver]

Googles Dave, defiantly googles