Canadian Armed Forces Prototype Barrday P2 Helmet - Large

Barrday Co. of Cambridge

A number of Barrday helmets (now designated P-2 Soldiers’ Helmets) were retrofitted with M-1 cradle suspensions and new trails were held in 1991. While the heat problem was resolved, and the helmet was almost fielded (some were issued on a  limited basis to some of the Canadian peacekeeping contingents, including the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Somalia and the RCMP in Former Yugoslavia), the Barrday helmet proved incompatible with existing and future equipment.

There were also quality control problems – reportedly “delamination” of the helmet bodies under field conditions. The contract was cancelled in 1992, after Barrday was sold off by Allied Signal. Barrday, however, still offers helmets of this design (but made from Kevlar) for police and commercial export markets.