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Preliminary Exercise
Members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade recently carried out investigations into the practicability of removing injured passengers or persons who have been taken seriously ill in a railcar. The investigative exercise was carried out as a preliminary to a full-scale exercise which will be staged later this year.
The extremely narrow doorways of the railcar units make the task difficult when taking out a patient.
Peter Fraser, Bill Sefton and George Howchow prepare to take "patient" Ross Bates from the railcar after he has been put in a Neil Robinson stretcher.
Harry Hamblyn explains to Russell Kilpatrick, Miss Eileen Stevenson and John Stothers the best method of removing...
...by blanket stretcher Mrs Jean Cording who is acting as patient
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