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  Bicycle Helmet Laws
The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute supports carefully drawn mandatory helmet laws covering all age groups because we believe they are needed to raise awareness that helmets save lives, in the same way that seatbelt laws and smoke detector requirements were used to inform the public that those safety devices were necessary.
Helmet laws can be useful, but given the problems with enforcing them they will probably not work well in most places until more riders have accepted the need for wearing a helmet.
The authors of This Cochrane Collaboration study found that helmet legislation "appears to be effective in increasing helmet use and decreasing head injury rates in the populations for which it is implemented.
helmets.org /mandator.htm   (3495 words)

  
  Trenches on the Web - Special: The German Stahlhelm, M1916
The smaller sized helmets, size 60, 62 and 64, had an extra step on the helmet lugs, to make up for their small size so that the helmet plate, which only came in one size, could be attached to all helmets.
In 1917, the helmet was simplified by removing the pickelhaube chinstrap mounts, and attaching the chinstrap directly to the helmet liner.
Helmets already in the field were to be painted in camouflage colors as well as local conditions allowed.
www.worldwar1.com /sfgstal.htm   (1698 words)

  
 CHROME HELMET HEAVY ROCK FROM ADRIAN MICHIGAN
CHROME HELMET materialized in 2002 beneath the deep-rooted grasslands of southeastern Michigan.
However, Chrome Helmet is even more proficient at blasting through heartlands punk (somewhere between Husker Du and the Necros) as they are laying down psychedelic grooves and Sebadoh-meets-Foreigner-inspired jams.
By this time, CHROME HELMET had already made a name for themselves for cutting no-nonsense rockers, as well as incredibly melodic radio-friendly cuts.
www.chromehelmet.com   (408 words)

  
 Adrian Sutil - Official Website of the Spyker F1 Driver
A very special thank you goes to all the sponsors and partners who made everything, Adrian has achieved, possible in the first place and stood by him throughout the years.
Not to be forgotten should be all the people who have accompanied and supported Adrian in other ways, next to the financial side.
Since Adrian entered The BMW Championship in 2003 Medion sponsored him and was always a very important partner in Adrians carrier.
www.adriansutil.com /info,sponsors,1.html   (276 words)

  
 The Reformer by S.M. Stirling & David Drake - Chapter 4 - Baen Books
Adrian whipped his own staff-sling around his head, aiming for a standard in the fourth rank of the nearest Confed battalion borne by a man with the tanned head of a direbeast over his helmet.
Adrian didn’t think his father would ever have tolerated the skirt of weed that showed green against the blue water all around, or bilges that stank badly enough to overpower even the iodine smell of the sea.
Adrian licked dry lips, squinting out over the white-flecked blue of the Western Ocean; they hadn’t had time to ship extra water or supplies, and with two hundred men aboard they were down to a cupful a day—green, slimy, sweeter-tasting than any wine.
www.baen.com /chapters/reformer_4.htm   (4946 words)

  
  Militrade has an online auction for military collectibles, military history, a forum and links to other sites
The M15 Adrian helmet (French: Casque Adrian) was a military helmet issued to the French Army during World War I. It was the first standard helmet of the French Army, and was designed when millions of French troops were engaged in trench warfare and head wounds became a significant proportion of battlefield casualties.
Helmets were among the oldest forms of combat protection, and are known to have been worn by ancient Greeks, Romans, throughout the Middle Ages, and up to the end of the 1600s by many combatants.
Anatomical helmets adapted to the inner head structure were invented by neurosurgeons at the end of the 20th century.
www.militrade.com /histories_detail.php?id=118   (1331 words)

  
 Helmet Paint -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Helmets are among the most ancient forms of protection, and are known to have been worn by ancient Greeks and throughout the Middle Ages; at this time they were primarily military equipment, protecting the head from cutting blows with swords and flying arrows.
This confusion is relieved by understanding that the perpendicular impact speed of the helmet is usually not the same as the road speed of the motor cycle and that the severity of the impact is determined not only by the speed of the head but also by the nature of the surface it hits.
Helmet was acclaimed as a thinking person's heavy metal band, however, they have been criticized by some Metalheads for creating or paving the way for Nu Metal.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/72/helmet-paint.html   (1823 words)

  
 Brodie Helmet Definition
The first of these helmets were steel "skullcaps" worn under the cap, inspired by the tale of a soldier who survived a potentially lethal wound by wearing a bowl on his head.
The steel helmet was known to the troops as a "tin hat" or for the officers a "battle bowler" and, with typical fl humour, a bayonet was sometimes called a "tin opener".
Helmets were often painted with unit insignia towards the end of the war, and are often called "parade helmets" by collectors.
www.apparelsearch.com /Definitions/Headwear_Hats/brodie_helmet.htm   (867 words)

  
 French M-15 Adrian helmet information - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
Because the Adrian helmets were popular with various Allied nations during and even in the ensuing peace that followed these helmets will show up in a variety of other colors with the most common, after the French gray-blue variations, being the brown of the Belgian army.
Helmets like one example that is displayed in the book Helmets: Combat Helmets of the World by Paolo Marzetti should be viewed as one of a kind items produced for a high-ranking staff officer who had visions of another era of warfare and should not be deemed common by any stretch of the imagination.
During the 1920's Polish helmets either had metal eagles attached to the front of the helmet (the eagles were from the Polish caps) using the original French badge holes, or they painted an eagle in white on the front of the helmet.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=97630   (3975 words)

  
 MilitaryItems.com
One of the different aspects of this helmet is that the liner and the helmet shell were two separate pieces which could be used independently.
The last of the American combat helmets, which is currently in use, is known as the Kevlar helmet.
Due to cost and efficiency reasonf the M-43 helmet was stamped of a single sheet of metal without the rolling of the edges.
www.quanonline.com /military/military_reference/helmets/helmets.html   (721 words)

  
 ww2 adrian helmet question - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
the helmet is painted in fl and was used after the war by a dutch firm.
This helmet looks very strange on the front view, the edges are very flat; but seing the inside, it does look like a real adrian...
Adrians were made for a long time, for several countrys, and there were surely many special variants.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=28321   (337 words)

  
 Adrian helmet - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The helmet was intended to protect the soldier from artillery shell shrapnel from above, hence the deflector crest.
Like most helmets of this era, it was never designed to protect from the direct impact of rifle or machine gun bullets.
In the French army the Adrian helmet was standard military issue until after World War II, and was also used by the French police up to the 1970s.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1089607   (235 words)

  
  French Adrian
The second helmet, the M26, French Adrian, was introduced on May 21st, 1915 and was in use by the French until after World War II.
Originally the helmets were painted in a high gloss blue but this proved to be detrimental in combat zones so khaki colored covers were issued for the helmets.
Insignia, on the front of the helmets, indicated the branch of military the wearer belonged to.
www.co.brown.wi.us /Museum/Helmets/FrenchAdrian/FrenchAdrian.htm   (262 words)

  
 Louis Garneau Helmet
A helmet is a form of protective clothing worn on the head and usually made of metal or some other hard substance, typically for protection from falling objects or high-speed collisions.
Helmets are among the most ancient forms of protection, and are known to have been worn by ancient Greeks and throughout the Middle Ages ; atthis time they were primarily military equipment, protecting the head from cutting blows with swords and flying arrows.
However, with the increasing useof heavy artillery, the steel helmet made a comeback in the 20th Century as protection for the head from shrapnel.
www.altvetmed.com /face/44651-louis-garneau-helmet.html   (590 words)

  
 Helmets
This helmet was used by the military from 1927 to 1938 then given to the Civil Defense and painted white.
This is a fancy painted helmet from the US Allied Expeditionary Force 96th Aero Squadron captured and painted during World War I. It is in very good to near excellent condition, with some minor wear apparent on the colored paint on the top.
This is a close-up of the identification on the steel and the skirt of the helmet.
www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/helmets.htm   (2760 words)

  
 Stewarts Military Antiques - militaria, collectables, photography and books
The helmet star is a nicely aged postwar replacement in our opinion, although it matches the helmets aged exterior very well.
Original WWII manufactured M1940 steel helmet, appears to be a size 62 shell.
This is an original late pattern one piece Luftschutz Helmet which bears original German fieldgray paint and on the left side a German manufactured original Bulgarian decal.
www.stewartsmilitaryantiques.com /display.php?getcategory=Headgear&session=f137f46b855c25570004e20dc5ac82d9   (1188 words)

  
 Western Front Association Contributed Articles
From the outset of the war, the French cavalry wore polished ceremonial steel helmets and breastplates and continued to wear them for an unjustifiable length of time after their utility was clearly shown to be in dubious in an increasingly mechanised war.
The shape of the helmet was determined by the British priority to provide protection to the head and neck from shrapnel balls of shells exploding overhead: the sloping surface acting as a deflector.
The helmet was formed from a sophisticated sheet-steel pressing process that produced in one piece the extra deep bowl with a flared rim.
www.westernfrontassociation.com /thegreatwar/articles/weapons/bodyarmour.htm   (3001 words)

  
 Uniforms & Equipment Needed
The complex shape of the Adrian Helmet was inspired by the protective helmet worn by French firemen of the day; it consisted of a skull, a two-part brim and an applied raised crest, with a pressed metal badge on the front, which
Sometime in 1916, it was decided to change the color of the helmet to a matt dark blue-gray finish, as this helped reduce the helmet's glare in the sun and did away with the fabric covers which, because they got very dirty, tended to infect head wounds.
The Adrian helmets were sized to the shell itself and ranged from small to extra large.
www.reenactor.net /units/151ri/8-une.html   (3247 words)

  
 Militaria Collectibles, specialists In Militaria german and italian, Collectables ,uniforms , medals, insigna and ranks ...
R.S.I. helmets realized with stuffing and shell original 1943/45,painting and decoration post-war.
Helmet Italians SS with decoration hand made and decalcomania
Helmet in heay leather of Legionnarie of battalions
www.militariacollection.com /fascisthelmets.htm   (288 words)

  
 Axis History Factbook: A brief history of the German Stahlhelm
The model 1916 Stahlhelm was a mix between the obsolete Pickelhaube and the French made 'Adrian' helmet.
Unlike the ‘Adrian' helmet the M16 was a grey (feld grau) color, rather then a bronze color (this tradition was carried on to all stahlhelms up until 1945).
The Model 1916 helmet saw service on both fronts of the war and proved to be quiet successful, except that the wearers hearing was impaired because of the size and shape of the helmet.
www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=5173   (1431 words)

  
 Michigan High School Helmet Project - Home
Please check your school's helmet to see if it needs updating.
Of course, schools change their helmets from year to year, so there are more that will need updating.
Also, we've added a new helmet to the collection from the missing list...
www.michiganhelmetproject.org   (687 words)

  
 Bicycle Helmet Briefs
Helmets are an essential part of that, and should never be overlooked as one element of a comprehensive safety campaign to save bicyclists' lives.
In addition, a helmeted rider fell on a turn at an intersection in a rainy Dutch stage of the Tour de France and hit his head on a concrete bollard in the center of the road, but to the astonishment of the crowd got up and raced away.
Helmets were the rule for most of the Giro d'Italia that ended today, but riders were permitted to jettison them for the final race to the summit on five particularly hard climbs.
www.bhsi.org /briefs.htm   (5199 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / HARDHEADED LOGIC
But General Adrian did not return to the pot; he and his staff modified the standard French fireman’s helmet of the time, giving it a slightly shallower brim and lower crest but leaving the bowl shape unchanged, simplifying the tooling for producing hundreds of thousands.
Schwerd was firm about avoiding the temptation to strengthen the helmet’s front against direct rifle fire; he knew that riveting extra pieces would weaken the helmet and additional weight would discourage troops from wearing it.
In fact, racing helmets can be so heavy and forces so great that drivers may need a supplementary restraint, such as Jim Downing and Robert Hubbard’s HANS (Head and Neck System), to keep the helmet from whipping the neck fatally in a crash.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/2003/1/2003_1_34.shtml   (4426 words)

  
 Helmet, Militaria at Collectibls On Sale
A helmet is a form of protective clothing worn on the head and usually made of metal or other hard substance, such as Kevlar, resin fiber, or plastic typically for protection of the head in combat, or in civilian life, from sports injuries, falling objects or high-speed collisions.
Helmets are among the most ancient forms of combat protection, and are known to have been worn by ancient Greeks, Romans, throughout the Middle Ages, and up to the end of the 1600s by many combatants.
The often ridiculed Prussian spiked helmet did nevertheless save many soldiers by diverting sideways otherwise mortal sabre blows to the head; it was retained in the age of the machine gun merely for tradition.
www.collectibles-onsale.com /helmet.htm   (1166 words)

  
 Military Collection of Peter Suciu
This particular helmet appears to have been reissued by the Germans as a Luftschutz helmet (based on the stamp on the front of the rim).
These helmets are often misidentified as being for paratroopers, but photographic evidence suggests these helmets were actually used by motorized infantry.
This helmet was reportedly obtained from a veteran of the Vietnam War and was possibly supplied along with Chicom equipment to artillery personnel during the conflict.
www.nyc-techwriters.com /militaria/soviet_helmets.htm   (634 words)

  
 "Monk" (2002) - Memorable quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adrian Monk: I haven't needed a babysitter since I was nineteen.
Adrian Monk: I mean, he could do alot worse than me for a father.
Adrian Monk: I remember during the service she was crying so hard, she couldn't even say the words "I do".
imdb.com /title/tt0312172/quotes   (1568 words)

  
 WWI French 1915 Adrian helmet - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
Fred, my friend have an important Adrian helmets collections, so far one of the best I know by quality etc. so I could post some french helmets from time to time if there is an interest among our readers.
These helmets were reissued to the Soviet Red Army, but the emblem was replaced with a big red star emblem.
The difference was that the new helmets were made of thicker matherial, so were heavy, also the liner was a little different than the French one.
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=34594   (791 words)

  
 Helmets, Snowmobiling at Sports Goods Online
A helmet is a form of protective clothing worn on the head and usually made of metal or other hard substance, such as Kevlar, resin fiber, or plastic typically for protection of the head in combat, or in civilian life, from sports injuries, falling objects or high-speed collisions.
Helmets were among the oldest forms of combat protection, and are known to have been worn by ancient Greeks, Romans, throughout the Middle Ages, and up to the end of the 1600s by many combatants.
The Napoleonic era saw ornate cavalry helmets reintroduced for cuirassiers and dragoons in some armies; they continued to be used by French forces during World War I as late as 1915, when they were replaced by the new French Adrian helmet.
www.sportsgoodsonline.com /helmets_649.htm   (629 words)

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