Tozer's Improved Ambulance (Birmingham? 1890s)

[Pallen]

Hi,

has anyone ever come across one of these "Tozer Improved Ambulance", it looks like a type of litter, although a later edition of the Ashford Litter type model.

I would be grateful if anyone could shed any light on this, or if others exist? I have seen a lot of references to the Tozer family on this in Birmingham.

Many thanks,

Pallen

 

[Pedrocut]

There is a mention in Lancet in 1885 of a stretcher...

TOZER'S AMBULANCE STRETCHER.

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[mikejee]

If you go to posts 201-202 at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...f-birmingham-1914-18.2867/page-11#post-563587 , then it would appear that either the manufacturer of the plaque, or the British Medical Journal got the name wrong, as the BMJ and the representative from the Cadbury library seem to think that it was Tailby

 

[Pallen]

There is a mention in Lancet in 1885 of a stretcher...

TOZER'S AMBULANCE STRETCHER.

www.sciencedirect.com

Thanks, might check with a friend who might be signed up to the Lancet.

 

[Pallen]

If you go to posts 201-202 at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...f-birmingham-1914-18.2867/page-11#post-563587 , then it would appear that either the manufacturer of the plaque, or the British Medical Journal got the name wrong, as the BMJ and the representative from the Cadbury library seem to think that it was Tailby

Thanks, although I do believe this is a litter. Definetelt Tozer, but have not came across another model like this or any by Tozer's.

 

[Pedrocut]

Thanks, might check with a friend who might be signed up to the Lancet.

Yes I think Tailby and Tozer are different people.

Edward Mantle Tailby is an unusual name, but there is an Edward Mauth Tailby, timber merchant, (42), living in Edgbaston (could be Mantle), in the 1911 Census. So his birth would be around 1869.

There is an Edward Mantle Tailby, County Director of the Birmingham, British Red Cross Society, who was awarded the OBE in 1935.
Further there is an Edward Mantle Tailby OBE who died in 1948, address being Church Hill, Tettenhall, and Director of the Port of Gloucester Docks . His birth year is also 1869.

The Lancet article occurs in 1885, and if this is the Tailby, then he would be around 16 years old.