Name/Title
East Sussex Police numbered cardboard signs c1967Entry/Object ID
2319Description
Group of five white/cream coloured cardboard signs, each measuring approximately 31. 3cm x 11.3cm, with the wording "East Sussex Police" in black printed lettering, each with a number in the top right corner.Use
To label items belonging to East Sussex PoliceContext
The purpose of these signs is unknown at this time but they would appear to date from 1967 when East Sussex Constabulary changed its name to East Sussex Police. The following year the Force was amalgamated into Sussex Constabulary. The numbers on these signs exceed 100, so whatever was to be labeled consisted of a large number of items, they are also quite large. It is quite possible that they were something to do with the preparations for the amalgamation and that there was felt a need to label things connected with the East Sussex Force, possibly documentation or uniform which would become obsolete with the formation of the new police force ?
Should anybody know exactly what they were used for the museum would love to know.