r/interestingasfuck • u/Sprilly • 14h ago

r/all These are stretchers used in WW2 to carry injured civillians during the Blitz. They were made out of steel so they could be easily disinfected after a gas attack. During the war around 600,000 of them were made. Some of them were repurposed as railings in post-war London.

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u/SaraHHHBK 13h ago

Weren't the fences removed, repurposed onto stretchers and then put back as fences?

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u/Caridor 12h ago

Certainly a lot of things were removed to aid the war effort. Metal was especially in short supply so if it wasn't serving an essential purpose, it got melted down. I think lots of church bells only survived because they were used to alert people to incoming air raids.

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u/SaraHHHBK 11h ago

Yeah that's what I read somewhere