Research
| Published date | 01 March 1964 |
| Date | 01 March 1964 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6403700306 |
| Subject Matter | Research |
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In
our
January issue we mentioned a few
of
the interesting pieces
of
equipment shown at the Police College Exhibition from 21 to
25 October, 1963. This exhibition was seen by 113 visitors and the
college students and 56 police forces were represented, from as far
afield as Cornwall and Dunbartonshire.
Outside Bramshill House we had a range
of
frame tents, for
emergency housing, scene
of
crime or command post, supplied by
John
Edgington &Co., Old Kent Road, London. The tents were
supported by light frame which is made in a light alloy or light steel
tubing which was easily assembled. The support gives a clear floor
area which is an advantage over the ordinary ridge tent. Two
of
the General Purpose Unit Tents 18 ft. long X 14ft. 6in. wide, one
with white canvas cover and inner tent, and the other with a trans-
lucent"
Plastolene" welded cover, were shown. The latter was of
particular use as a scene
of
crime tent, giving maximum light with
privacy. Both these tents can be erected back from the scene of
crime and then carried forward by four or six men to be laid over the
spot required. A third tent was the Extenda Tent which is similar to
the General Purposes Unit Tent but, as the name implies, is ex-
tendable to any length, by units of
6ft.
The last of the John Edgington
tents was a very
strong"
emergency
housing"
type tent called the
"Salzman
1007", made in Germany, and at present being taken
into use by the Territorial Army in this country.
Bath city police have constructed arectangular frame tent with
white canvas walls and a translucent oilskin
roof
for covering a
scene of crime and this also was displayed.
In association with the tents, we displayed the self-propelled
mobile police station made for Warwickshire county police to their
own specification on a 2-ton Commer
"Walk-Thru"
135in. wheel-
base chassis, by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., Warwick, and the
caravan mobile police station (with long wheel-base Land Rover)
made to the specification
of
the Surrey Constabulary. Both these
vehicles are outstanding examples of mobile police stations.
In the tents we showed the
Kent"
mud-boat ", the Avon Redcrest
Dinghy, described in
our
last article, the Kent Police Triumph
650 c.c. twin motor cycle with full police equipment and the
Staffordshire police D.M.W. police-equipped motor cycle.
A late entry for the exhibition was the Porton Resuscitator. This
is a life-saving instrument to give the
"kiss-of-life"
in cases of
asphyxia by electric shock and drowning. The apparatus consists
basically of a bellows and mask and ensures a higher percentage of
oxygen, a higher standard
of
hygiene and better ventilation than the
mouth-to-mouth method.
It
costs £15 15s., and is supplied by
Pfizer, Ltd., Sandwich, Kent. A boy was revived with this instrument
recently at the Durham city swimming baths.
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