Objects Database

Stretcher

Accession Number

039.2008.1

Object Name

Stretcher

Created

29/03/2008

Creator

Mick Tighe

Accession Date

29/03/2008

Brief Description

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.

Materials

Steel tubing and wire mesh

Dimensions

263cm (L) x 57cm (W) x 23cm (H)

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

Two silver Peter Bell stickers, one on each section.

Colour

Blue

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 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.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Lomond Mountain Rescue Team

Acquisition Date

29/03/2008

Reference

Peter Bell also made "Reviva" see 612.2008.1

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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