German WW2 Drivers Badge Silver Award by Richard Underwood

Excellent quality reproduction of the Silver German Driver Proficiency Badge issued in WW2.

The Drivers badge was issued to drivers of all types of vehicles including motorcycles, trucks, command cars and armoured vehicles. The award was only issued after you had served and driven for a certain period of time, each type of vehicle had a different length of time before you could be issued the award for example a motorcycle despatch rider would need 90 days of service but a supply truck driver would need 165 days of service. 

After you had received the award you would be expected to maintain your vehicle to a high standard or the award could be taken away.

This WW2 Driver award is a very high quality replica made in the correct zinc type material, so is light just like the original (some cheap replicas are made from cast metal so are the wrong weight).

The drivers badge was awarded in 3 grades bronze, silver and gold.  

The reproduction silver award Driver Proficiency award badge has the following features of the original:

• Award is backed onto field grey wool.
• Silver award (this is the award classification, it is not made of silver). 
• Made from zinc so it is the correct light weight.
• Back of the badge is hollow.
• It has two prongs, which are made as part of the badge, on the edge which bend over and into the wool backing.
• Design is a steering wheel surrounded by a laurel wreath.
• These have an aged look to them, so each finish on each badge will be slightly different.

The drivers badge is worn on down the centre of the left sleeve of a tunic on the lower part of the sleeve. Halfway between the elbow and sleeve cuff.

Quality badge which is part of the Richard Underwood Militaria range.