British bike jacket – can you help me date it? Clix zip, Newey studs...

[Arrowheadkiwi]

Hey folks, Mrs Badger and I were out and about in some quite rotten weather today – I took some more Bam-Balam Belts to one of my stockists and we checked out a flea market in between downpours – but a 'why the hell not?' visit to a usually very poor car boot sale, which is in some smelly cattle pens at an agricultural market, turned up trumps!

I spotted an old leather jacket hanging on a gatepost to one of the cattle pens, and when I picked it up, I realised that it must be quite old – lambskin/capeskin by the feel of it – and thought my wife would like it... sure enough, she was thrilled, and the guy only wanted a fiver for it!

There's no label, nor maker's mark anywhere, but it's deffo not steer, the main zipper is an oblong Clix (sorry, couldn't get a decent pic with a cameraphone), the others no-name ball-pulls with brown tape (could've faded from black), the press studs are Newey, and the lining a lightly quilted red cotton rayon (deffo no man-made fibres).

I was thinking that it may be either a Rivett's or a Mascot (although the collar ends aren't squared-off), any ideas about a maker / date?

I used some rejuvenator on it, repaired a few small nicks with leather glue and *gulp* found out that it fits ME! Too big for Mrs Badger, after all...

Mr Badger, my father Gerry Newey, who flew Lancaster's over Germany in 1944, came home to New Zealand and opened a leather factory making Bomber jackets and racing leathers. His Bomber jacket was lined with lambs wool and had studs and he sold these for 5 NZ pounds! He also lined some with a satin type material. The company was called Nor West and I'm wondering if your jacket could one of his? Bruce
Just a thought.