The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
039.2008.1
Stretcher
29/03/2008
Mick Tighe
29/03/2008
Mountain Rescue Stretcher (2 piece). Square section steel tubing, wire mesh bed, extendable handles at one end. Silver Peter Bell Stickers on each section. Blue in colour with red and blue retaining straps.
Steel tubing and wire mesh
263cm (L) x 57cm (W) x 23cm (H)
1
Two silver Peter Bell stickers, one on each section.
Blue
Peter Bell
Peter Bell started his career in mountain rescue as a teenager when, whilst walking in Ireland, he came across a walker who needed help - the seed was sown.
He was a founder member of the Ambleside mountain rescue team ( now amalgamated with Langdale) and in 1972 he invented/created the Bell stretcher which became popular with English mountain rescue teams and the RAF, but didn't make much of an impression in Scotland where the MacInnes stretcher reigned - almost - supreme. The Bell stretcher moved with the times with a Mark 1,2 & 3 though they stopped being made in 2002 when Peter Bell retired.
The one we have here in the collection is a Mark 1 probably dating from the mid to late 1970's. It was donated by the Lomond Mountain Rescue Team.
Donated by Lomond Mountain Rescue Team
29/03/2008
Peter Bell also made "Reviva" see 612.2008.1
28/04/2009
Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
28/04/2009