Hospital Patients Moved by Electric Truck
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THE introduction of Tomlinson battery-electric vehicles and a specially designed trailer has considerably eased the work of the porters and nurses at the Rowley Bristow Orthopmdie Hospital at Pyrford, near Woking. Whereas the beds with their bed-ridden patients had to be pushed up a steep 400-yd. slope, the special trailer enables a bed and patient to be moved any distance by a single member of the staff and without any discomfort to the patient.
The trailer is designed to fit easily under a bed, hydraulic jacks being used to raise it clear of the floor. In addition to this special duty the electric vehicles are regularly used for the numerous routine duties in the hospital. The trailer is known as the Pyrford and was made by Tomlinson (Electric Vehicles), Ltd., Minster Lovell, Oxon, to the specification of the secretarysuperintendent of the hospital.
Tudor batteries are used in the vehicles, and, being of 108 amp. hr. capacity, one charge is sufficient to keep a machine operating from 7.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.