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Who is the UK Agent for Quinton equipment nowadays

They are now called Cardiac Science. They have a UK office

The Manse, 39 Northenden Road, Sale, Manchester, M33 2DH,
United Kingdom
Phone: 0161 9260000
Fax: 0161 9260002
Email: uk@cardiacscience.com

You beat me to it there, Cyber.

Check out this link.

PS: the company was originally founded by Wayne Quinton in the early 1960's in collaboration with Dr.Robert Bruce of the University of Washington. Just thought you'd like to know that!

I suppose batman beat them to using the name Bruce Wayne.
Robert

Perhaps you also have fond memories of the Cape-Wayne ventilator, too, Robert?

But nothing to do with the Caped Crusader, as far as I'm aware.

I rember the Cape-Waine Geoff, The mark 1, 2, and 3 (Am I old)?
Inspiratory/Expiratory valves originated from a Morris car.

Oh yes ... I last saw (and played with) one in a private hospital in a dusty town in the Desert Kingdom. But even that was twelve years ago now.

And ... (before someone else mentions it) remember the Sturmey-Archer "gearbox" on the old East-Radcliffe?

Those were indeed the days. That is, when even I stood a reasonable chance of fixing the stuff!

But here's one that I never came across (unfortunately).

Those were the days Geoff, when necessity bred invention.
The humidifier was a modified pressure cooker and the East Radcliffe itself was "designed", sorry, built for a polio epidemic in the 50's, by a company called H G East & Co of Littlemore, Oxford.

Yes, "needs must", indeed. I've worked on (inspected, checked-out) many an East humidifier in my time. And I think I may have recounted before the day we decommissioned the last Draeger iron lung found in army medical stores in Germany (it would have been around 1980).

What about the EMO (draw-over vaporizer)? ... still much sought after in the so-called "developing world".

Luckily, this stuff is well covered on the internet. I'll leave it to you to have the pleasure of looking it all up.

The "Clevedon" ventilator, for instance (for those of you who may know that North Somerset seaside town).

And let's not forget the great service to mankind given by the likes of Dr.Roger Manley. This one being the current state of the art, in a long line of excellent bits of kit!

All of which has absolutely nothing to do with Quinton treadmills, of course!

PS: EMO:- Epstein-Macintosh-Oxford

Just to come back a step (I haven't read these pages for a couple of days and so I'm catching up).
The Cape-Warwick ventilator Mk. 1 - 4 was built by Cape Engineering in Warwick. Their main line of business was tank warfare!!!!!
The ventilator was built in collaboration with the anaesthetists at the King Edward VII Hospital, Warwick and it used spare parts from a variety of sources (as previously mentioned) including a bicycle chain.
The Cape-Waine anaesthetic ventilator was a Cape-Warwick ventilator with the Waine anaesthetic head incorporated into it (or on it to be more precise). Dr. Waine (affectionately known as Curly due to his lack of hair!!) was an anaesthetist who worked at Warwick and then at the Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry where I had the good fortune to work with him.
However, it quickly became apparent that he hadn't got a clue how the Waine anaesthetic head was put together and was always asking his assistant (me in some cases) to fix various bits that were not functioning correctly.
I also had the pleasure of working with Dr Morrett who designed the Morrett anaesthetic head (if any of you can remember that one).