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This helmet, although called a tin helmet, was in fact made of steel. It was needed to protect the head from shrapnel and debris from bombs and bomb damaged buildings. Police officers would have worn these helmets for up to 8 hours or the duration of an air raid. At the beginning of the Second World War the helmets would have been padded, but as the war progressed a shortage of manufacturing materials resulted in a loss of quality.
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