Paris City Firefighter Helmet 1933.

Slightly trapezoidal shaped bomb in nickel and chrome stainless steel. Brass bead folded astride the outer edge of the visor and neck cover which is marked by the maker Bernard FRANCK et Fils in Aubervilliers and serial number "3285". Flat present on the front of the crest with flaming bomb added in brass. Front plate representing a shield with the arms of the City of Paris surmounted by a crown, with oak and laurel branches on each side, the whole surmounted by a ribbon bearing the inscription "FLUCTUAT NEC MERGITUR". Brown leather chinstrap. Black leather headdress cut into six wolf teeth. France. Fifth Republic.
Good condition with some dents on the top. Headdress worn. Size 55 cm.
- The 1933 model helmet of the firefighters At the beginning of the 1930s, the Paris firefighters, who were military personnel, expressed the need for a more protective helmet than the 1895 model that equipped them. The French army had just upgraded the 1915 Adrian helmet to the more resistant 1926 model, made in one piece with the addition of a crest and an attribute plate. Indeed, in 1931, Colonel Pouderoux, who commanded the Paris Firefighters Regiment (from 1925 to 1933), initiated a study in this direction carried out by the Bernard Franck et Fils company. It was the latter which supplied the 1895 model. Bernard Franck & Fils relies in large part on the study carried out for the army helmet in 1915 and offers from January 1932 a new model, close to the Adrian helmet of the general army model and four times more resistant than the 1895 model.

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