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Experimental levitation bed, England, 1978-1980

1978-1980

Yard and Ell Bed, 1821

1821

Bed, portable (handles missing), canvas and pine with turned mahogany legs, probably ex London & North Western Railway Queen Alexandra's Saloon.

Wooden portable bed, London & North Western Railway

Bed, London & North Western Railway, consisting of bedhead, bed end and two iron bars, ex Wolverton, unknown Royal Saloon.

Bed, London & North Western Railway

Bed, portable, canvas and pine with turned mahogany legs, probably ex London & North Western Railway King Edward VII Saloon.

Wooden portable bed, London & North Western Railway

Single bed comprising headboard, footboard, frame and springbase, 1940-1970, from volunteers' flat at the Common Cold Research Unit

Single bed comprising headboard

Hospital bed, metal frame, with four Dunlopillo rubber mattresses, two blankets and two pillows. Said to be the first "Dunlopillo" bed, 1935.

Hospital bed

1935

Bed from night compartment of railway carriage, London & North Western Railway, Queen Victoria's Saloon, built Wolverton Works, 1869.

Bed, Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Hospital bed, metal frame, with three Dunlopillo rubber mattresses, two blankets and three pillows. Said to be the first "Dunlopillo" bed, 1935

'Dunlopillo' hospital bed

1935

Child's bed inspired by the International Wagon Lits Company with a design in the form of a cutaway railway carriage, with false carriage wheels, mock window with pull-down blind, pocket watch holder, and reading lamp in the form of a carriage lamp. Bedspread with embroidered legend, "Wagon-Lits".

Child's Wagon Lits Bed

1934

Bed with heads and lead screw correcting apparatus complete, sliding carriage; one set of (4) change wheels in place

Bed with heads and lead screw correcting apparatus complete

Bed from night compartment of railway carriage, London & North Western Railway, Queen Victoria's Saloon, built Wolverton Works, 1869.

Bed, Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869