In 1954 the Army introduced a new series of web renovators to replace the old powdered blanco. These came in four shades; 61, 97, 103 and KG3:This KG3 web renovator is a dark green colour and as can be seen comes in a small round 2 ¼ ounce tin. The tin has instructions on the outside for applying the compound. Inside the tin the web renovator can be seen, a dark green boot polish like consistency that when applied to webbing gives it a slightly shiny dark green colour:The tins were sold in the NAAFI, and the contents manufactured by Joseph Pickering & Sons Ltd of Sheffield. The tins themselves have the combined ‘MB’ logo of the Metal Box Company who manufactured so many metal containers for the military. The renovator itself included wax for the first time which not only gave it the shine, but for the first time made the covering on webbing actually waterproof. Indeed one National Serviceman noted that you could take a newly treated haversack, turn it inside out and use it to carry water in!

The KG3 shade of blanco was introduced in about August 1943, and stood for ‘Khaki-Green shade No3’- it was the darkest shade of green blanco made and was the most commonly used in the latter half of the Second World War and into the 1950s. Finding original colour images is hard, but this example taken on 1^st January 1945 shows a soldier wearing webbing in the KG3 Shade: