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Originally Posted by derk derin
As far as wartime “style” stretchers here in Manitoba are concerned I’ve been buying them as I find them over the last 35 plus years adding them to my medical corps collection.
Having a stretcher jeep, a Universal carrier Mk1 and a Ford 60 CWT ambulance I knew I needed a lot of them to outfit my vehicles.
Not to mention my Medical corps displays in the basement.
I won’t get into post war stretchers, trying to keep this post short!
I decided today to have a look at them all and see how many I actually have and how many are Canadian military marked so I started pulling them out and looking carefully for markings.
I counted 8 in the basement with my displays and 11 of them outside with the vehicles.
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Wow Derk, thanks for making all those photos of your collection!
It shows that behind every single item, even mundane as a stretcher, there is a whole history of the design, manufacture and use which is often sparsely documented.
I'll sit down and digest your info in detail later.