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Stretcher

Accession Number

043.2008.1

Object Name

Stretcher

Created

29/03/2008

Creator

Mick Tighe

Accession Date

29/03/2008

Brief Description

Mountain rescue stretcher (2 piece). Stainless steel square section tubing with wire mesh bed and fold out black plastic handles. 2 silver Peter Bell stickers, silver in colour, produced by Peter Bell.

Materials

Stainless Steel, Wire mesh bed

Dimensions

192cm (L) x 58cm (W) x 21cm (H)

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

2 Silver Peter Bell stickers, one on each section.

Colour

Silver with blue and red retaining straps.

Maker

Peter Bell

Provenance

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 Longdale) 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 stretcher we have here is the stainless steel MK11 version. Unfortunately, we don't know where it came from - hope there's no one lying out on the hill waiting for a stretcher!

Acquisition Date

29/03/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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