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--JeffGBot (talk) 12:54, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is this right?

Having read the article, I must say as a former wearer of 37 pattern webbing, that some of the assertions, despite being sourced, seem a bit odd:

'Description' para 1, "1937 Pattern Webbing was made from cotton webbing" - I thought webbing was made from canvas, not cotton, (see the 58 pattern page).
'Description' para 1, "The fittings were made of stamped brass—blackened steel post war..." - I can remember lovingly scraping the blacking away to expose the brass underneath. (We would then have to spend hours polishing the fittings to a suitable luster).
'Description' para 2, "cartridge pouches for .303 magazines" - The British Army fought both world wars with bolt-action rifles; the magazine was normally left on the weapon. So I think this claim is more likely to refer to the stripper-clips that were in use at the time, not magazines.

As is often the case on Wikipedia, I have no contradictory references, only memories. RASAM (talk) 14:46, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the article to reflect your comment regarding the original ammunition pouches. Changing the word "magazine" to "ammunition" caused the word to be repeated a bit, so I edited the sentence again to make it sound OK. Mongoosander (talk) 00:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]