British ISCCW

By the time the USCWC and the British ISCCW came to consider the question of standardization of protective equipment, most items had been issued to the troops in the field. The committees decided that it would be more feasible at that late date to obtain interchangeability by training American and British troops to use each other s protective equipment than to attempt to standardize such items.The USCWC, therefore, made arrangements with the British for the supply of training materiel and equipment for demonstrations and inaugurated publications to acquaint U.S. and British chemical officers with each other s materiel. Although both committees considered it desirable to obtain standardization of one assault gas mask for British and American troops, their efforts to achieve these objectives were unsuccessful. 

One of the steps which the USCWC and the British ISCCW took toward interchangeability and standardization was the interchange of information on the research and development programs of both nations and with Canada. Not only did this eliminate some duplication of effort, but it enabled the scientists to design items so that they could be used equally well by troops of any of these nations. The process of research and development is such a slow one, however, that significant results are hardly obtainable in the space of three or four years. 

ISCCW Inter-Service Committee on Chemical Warfare (British)... 

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