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Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital

1936-1940
Compressed Air-Transmission Motor Car

Compressed Air-Transmission Motor Car

circa 1910
Marcellin Berthelot's Pen Wiper Brush, 1840-1860

Marcellin Berthelot's Pen Wiper Brush, 1840-1860

Fragment from right front panel from padded cell

Fragment from right front panel from padded cell

1936-1940
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

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

Leather horse collar

1900-1950