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Casualty bag/ system

Accession Number

425.2008.1

Object Name

Casualty bag/ system

Created

21/11/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

21/11/2008

Brief Description

Red/green secure casualty bag/secure casualty system. Green heavy duty nylon under sheet with four loops and two buckled tightening straps. Red ripstock nylon bag with two black zips and one yellow and head opening with drawstring. Silver rubber lining inside bag. Thermalite padded top. Inside black netting with tapes and buckles.

Materials

rubber, nylon,

Dimensions

250(l) x 60(w) cms.

Number Of Objects

1

Colour

green/red

Provenance

Casualty bags (cas-bags) are basically large sleeping bags used for keeping mountain rescue casualties warm during evacuation from the mountains. Early versions were just household blankets but as they were not waterproof, bespoke versions started to appear in the 1950's/60's
(some of which we have in the collection) and there have even been experiments using bubblewrap!
In 2000 the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland received a grant of several thousand pounds from the Katherine Smith Memorial Fund to develop a new rescue stretcher and in conjunction with this, Paul Rosher of Skye MRT began development of a new casualty bag calling it the Secure Casualty System(SCS). The one we have here in the collection is an early prototype and compliments the prototype stretcher which we also have - it's called the Katie in memory of Katherine Smith. Both the Katie and the SCS are in production and comercially available in 2012.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Paul Rosher

Acquisition Date

21/11/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Normal Location

Bohuntin

Current Location

Bohuntin

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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