Hover Stretcher (1961)

Hamble, Hampshire. Fade in to M/S of two men, Vic Pitt and Peter Downs in white overalls preparing the Hover Stretcher, for use in a field. On the side of the machine is the word ’Folland’; Folland Aircraft made the device. M/Ss and C/Us of nurse Muriel Smith helping an old man (Fred Olding) to lie down on a stretcher and covering him with a blanket. The attendants pick up the stretcher and place him on one side of the Hover Stretcher as commentator says “The prototype, carrying two stretchers at a time has been developed by an aircraft firm...[sic] in collaboration with the Royal Army Medical Corps“. The nurse attends to a patient, Alan Tripp, already on the other side of the Hover Stretcher; the men start up the machine and when the base inflates they start to walk off, one holds handlebars at the front, one takes the bars at the rear. The nurse just walks along next to it. They travel over the grass; the contraption seems to be blowing up quite a lot of dust; the two patients are covered wit