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Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

1936-1940
Fragment from right front panel from padded cell

Fragment from right front panel from padded cell

1936-1940
Marcellin Berthelot's Pen Wiper Brush, 1840-1860

Marcellin Berthelot's Pen Wiper Brush, 1840-1860

Compressed Air-Transmission Motor Car

Compressed Air-Transmission Motor Car

circa 1910
Car with experimental compressed air transmission. Made by Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar in the Physics Department workshops at Imperial College, London. The car is based on a 1906 20hp Model F Stanley steam car. Professor Callendar installed a c1911 Swift, two-cylinder, petrol car engine where the boiler would have been on the original Stanley car. This petrol engine powered an air compressor, providing compressed air to power a 20hp Stanley steam car engine which drove the rear axle. The car is fitted with a Swift radiator and different hood so does not look like a standard Stanley steam car.

Motor car with experimental compressed air transmission

circa 1910
Leather seat padding with organic filling, from Massey-Ferguson type 780 combine harvester thresher J 3162 C

Seat padding, from Massey-Ferguson type 780 combine harvester thresher J 3162 C

Leather horse collar with twill weave windowpane pattern textile covering, from horse-drawn Brooke Bond van. 1900-1950.

Leather horse collar

1900-1950
A two-part vehicle seating component from a 1933 Ford Model BB (mobile library, formerly operated by Erith Urban District Council), consisting of a shaped wooden seat base and a separate upholstered cushion with internal metal springs. The wooden base is constructed from joined boards forming a tapered seat platform. The cushion is formed with a contoured profile to align with the base, and is covered in a dark, leather-like material stretched over internal padding and a fabric underlayer.

Seat base and cushion

1933
A two-part vehicle seating component from a 1933 Ford Model BB (mobile library, formerly operated by Erith Urban District Council), consisting of a shaped wooden seat base and a separate upholstered cushion with internal metal springs. The wooden base is constructed from joined boards forming a tapered seat platform. The cushion is formed with a contoured profile to align with the base, and is covered in a dark, leather-like material stretched over internal padding and a fabric underlayer.

Seat base and cushion

1933