Early Bomb Squad Protective Clothing

This excerpt from a magazine, dated 1922:

This from 1933, a German protective suit:

And this from the Nineteen-fifties, a NYPD bomb suit.  Note the object behind the operator. This is a “LaGuardia-Pyke Bomb carrier” developed in 1940 and still in use in the 1990s, albeit mounted on a newer truck.  The device was for transporting IEDs before in-situ safe disposal techniques were developed.  I’m pulling together a blog piece on this equipment for the near future.

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