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Stretcher

I'm not sure why this old stretcher was here.
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I would imagine they had it in case of a workplace injury.
Maypost
Thu 02-23-2006
That does seem so out of place here doesn't it? However Maypost you could be right about that.

Whoa, look at that old wood on the floor, I love it.
Jude
Thu 02-23-2006
My guess is that the stretcher was acquired as an Army/Navy surplus item after WWII.
csw
Thu 02-23-2006
That would be my guess too, csw. Was this place an air raid shelter? Every grade school I attended in PA in the '60s had bunches of these. They must have been cheap and someone thought it was a good idea for the schools to have them, probably because they doubled as air raid shelters.
jane
Thu 02-23-2006
Could there be a possible connection to the comment made about the engines? If they were diesel engines for military trucks....?
Tony C.
Thu 02-23-2006
I looked it up. This plant made amphibious track vehicles for the navy during WWII. I tried to post the link here last night, but I guess it didn't work.
jane
Fri 02-24-2006
It is a Military stretcher.
Richard
Sat 02-25-2006
are you sure you didn't get a hospital photo mixed in the set? Just kidding.
drcooz
Sat 02-25-2006
Occam's razor:
Every plant had a doctor and nurse on duty during operations. This stretcher was likely used to carry injured workers. It shouldn't be surprising that Studebaker purchased a cheap army surplus one. It has nothing to do with production of WWII trucks, amphibs, or such.
Dharkangell
Fri 03-10-2006
Maybe people were doing "Studebaker Plant Re-eanactions". It is surely the new rage, just like re-enacting wars and such. The stretcher is probably used by the re-enactors to carry someone who is portraying a worker crushed by a press as a fender was being made out of a piece of flat steel.
Andrew
Wed 03-22-2006
Oh, tap into your warped sense of humor... do it...
Andrew
Wed 03-22-2006
I amazed that there is anything of any value still in the building. I thought when a company went out of business that everthing was sold off and used to pay creditors.
Randy_G
Tue 08-08-2006
There is this college in Des Moines that has an air raid shelter that is actually hard to get to. They had all kinds of Civil Defense stuff in it from geiger counters to doseameters to food, emergancy toilets, iodine pills, and strechers. I have not been in the shelter for 16 years or so. We wouldhide in there and party. Of the dozen shelters I have been in or so, most had streachers. Kinda scary to work in a place that would have them
Mike J.
Fri 11-24-2006
I once helped a friend & his mum clear out a store cupboard at a leisure centre where she worked.

One item we took out was a stretcher like this. We were told to be careful because it was very heavy.

So much that with someone on the barers might have to be stetchered off if they didn't lift properly!
Richard Davies
Sun 04-29-2007
I grew up in South Bend. The town is full of "fallout shelters". Supposedly, during the cold war, missiles were aimed at the town because of its strong manufacturing ability.
Dan
Sun 04-20-2008
i don't know how it got there, but i like it:)
Trish
Mon 09-08-2008
I'd like to have that to go in my WWII Ambulance
Dean
Fri 03-13-2009
Yep. 1950s era military issue canvas pole stretcher. The Army made millions of 'em.
Larry D
Tue 02-15-2011
Leftover prop from a M*A*S*H episode.
Devin
Sun 05-29-2011
They had this stretcher onhand in case some jerk threw something off the balconies above and hit a worker below...
From OH
Sat 07-16-2011
Dont forget that studebakers also made like red cross carriages back in the old days..., a great webpage to read is as follows,
http://www.stude100.com/stu/Pg1/pg1.php , enjoy. I remember Studebaker very well as both my grandfathers worked there, as well as my wifes grandfather. Growing up my, bedroom faced part of the old studebaker plants, i would wakeup on the weekends and watch the police train their dogs in the big open fields, also i am a sheetmetal worker and I had done all the metalwork on the studie museum. including fabrication and installation of coping and clip etc. on the exterior.
http://en.wikipedia.or...baker-museum-new.jpg
cheers to this webpage creater and you fine folks that visit.
Lee from South Bend, IN.
Thu 09-06-2012

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