1966 Albany Woollen Mills Department of Defence Army Blanket
1966Earthy orange/ochre woollen blanket with three (3) 52mm light green strips spaced across running the full length of the blanket. Light green blanket-stitching on top and bottom edges. Has a small cotton silk-screened makers label fixed to the lower righthand side corner.
The Albany Woollen Mills, also known as Worsted and Woollen Mills Ltd., was Western Australia’s first woollen mill. It was officially opened on 5 February 1925. In 1963 it was one of four mills to be awarded defence contracts for the production of 160,000 army blankets.
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On label “ALBANY WOOLLEN MILLS / ^ / 1966”
This is a good example of an Albany Woollen Mills manufactured blanket for the Australian Department of Defence during the Vietnam War era.
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