U-Boat stockists

[pilchardthecat]

Are there any outside that there London?

I'm obsessing over Thousands of Feet but i come out in a rash if i go to London

[Juicetin1]

Selfridges in Birmingham have just about the whole range.

[HOGEPH]

http://www.u-boatwatch.co.uk/stores.html

[CommanderJameson]

This is just idle curiosity, but what does the "thousands of feet" actually refer to?

It can't be the WR, because I looked on the internet (therefore it must be true etc) and they seem to be rated to 100M.

Is it a reference to the size of the dial?

[pilchardthecat]

CommanderJameson said:

This is just idle curiosity, but what does the "thousands of feet" actually refer to?

It can't be the WR, because I looked on the internet (therefore it must be true etc) and they seem to be rated to 100M.

Is it a reference to the size of the dial?

I think it's because it looks a bit like an aircraft altimeter (which would have that written on it)

[C8PPO]

pilchardthecat said:

CommanderJameson said:

This is just idle curiosity, but what does the "thousands of feet" actually refer to?

It can't be the WR, because I looked on the internet (therefore it must be true etc) and they seem to be rated to 100M.

Is it a reference to the size of the dial?

I think it's because it looks a bit like an aircraft altimeter (which would have that written on it)

Or a U-Boat's submarine's depth meter, by any chance.......

[pilchardthecat]

C8PPO said:

pilchardthecat said:

CommanderJameson said:

This is just idle curiosity, but what does the "thousands of feet" actually refer to?

It can't be the WR, because I looked on the internet (therefore it must be true etc) and they seem to be rated to 100M.

Is it a reference to the size of the dial?

I think it's because it looks a bit like an aircraft altimeter (which would have that written on it)

Or a U-Boat's submarine's depth meter, by any chance.......

Uboats weren't rated to those sorts of depths; the type IX was good for about 200m test depth and would crush at 280m or so, which is under 1000ft. The Tiefenmasser depth guages looked very different

Given that there's another model called "Flight Deck" I suspect there may be some aviation influence with these two models

/history nerd