Paging Paul Varnsverry

Come on then.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

If you think your body armour is hard enough?

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
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FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I reckon it's this

http://www.jofama.se/MC05/

.... although curiously, the CE bit looks like a sort of armoured kevlar
Damart arrangement - unless the site's got it's GIFs mixed up

 

simonk wrote

Possible. Opera certainly doesn't like left hand side of their web
pages.

 

Fine on my installation (7.23)

 

simonk wrote

Opera has got some life left on this machine yet. It does what I want
in a fuss free manner and it is not so long ago I ditched Mozilla and I
don't want to go through all the faffing about playing with new ones
just yet again.

 

Seems to work ok for me (O7.5)

 

Now it can be revealed!

I wasn't aware they had already posted information on their web site,
but, yes, this is one of the textile CE garments I have been working
on for the past two years, on behalf of the UK police. The protective
layer, which Jofama are marketing as "HI-ART" - High Abrasion
Resistant Textile (Patents Pending) - is a layer of abrasion and
cut-resistant terry-knit fabric laminated to a layer of high-tenacity
mesh. It is 100% air permeable.

Depending on weather conditions, either a
windproof/waterproof/breathable outer layer or one with mesh inserts
is attached. The first will block everything and utilises the layer of
still air within the terry-knit fabric as insulation. The vented
jacket and trousers allow airflow straight through to the wearer on a
hot day. Eventually, it will be possible to purchase separate outer
layers to reflect changing styles and even match colourschemes when
you change bikes.

Ten police forces around the country have been trialling the suit, in
police livery, since May. It has been used on general traffic
operations and by ANPR teams. One suit has been subjected to crash
testing! ;-) They have been impressed. Also, at Intermot last week,
the suit apparently attracted a lot of attention and positive
comments.

At least one UK company wants to talk about retailing it. From what I
have been told, the price will be competitive with other premium
textile garments, but with the advantage that in laboratory tests the
combination of materials used in the HI-ART suit match the performance
of leathers (exceeds Level 2 of EN 13595; attains Level 3 of Cambridge
Standard).

Another manufacturer has been developing a Kevlar-based version of the
same concept (which originates from the "Tri-Tector" conceived and
patented by Dr Roderick Woods in the early 1990s), but this is still
some way behind the Jofama version and, as far as I am aware, it is
not that particular company's intention to sell their product to
civilians.

Finally, there are the Scott "New Road" and "Road Airflow" jackets
which are just starting to be issued to the Metropolitan Police
motorcycle sections. These use a different, "layered" technology which
reaches Level 2 of EN 13595, but is not air permeable like the
terry-knit fabric.

HTH

 

So you are saying there is no UK retail supplier right now as winter
approaches?
<flounce>

 

Is there a shortage of scissors at your place, too?

Here, have a couple of mine ... 8< 8< 8<

 

I did snip a bit FFS but yes it ran over one pane.

 

But you ojnly needed to leave one line in for context - everything
else could have been snipped.

 

If you are serious, I *might* be able to convince Jofama to sell you a
suit, assuming they have a prototype available in your size.

 

It's one of these "gotta try it on forst" things though innit Gov.

 

I suppose I could trawl the archives of ukrm for a clue as to the
"Hog" body dimensions...

I have a size Euro 54 (= XL) jacket and trousers available, and one
pair of Euro 56 (= XXL) trousers - all in police livery [1] - which
could be used for a static fitting trial.

Paging Tom Warner. I recall an agreement to let you see the suit at
some stage.

[1] It would be *so* tempting to try the suits out on the public
highway. ]>

 

5'9" - 42" so that's a no!

Not in Belfast it isn't