High time they did something about a bath-chair man-power pool ...

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High time they did something about a bath-chair man-power pool ...

Rowland Emett (1906-1990)

Price

£3,500

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title and publishing details on mount

Medium

Ink and watercolour

Dimensions

9 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches

Illustrated

Punch, 2 December 1942, Page 462

Exhibited

'Marvellous Machines: The Wonderful World of Rowland Emett', Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, May-September 2014; 'The Magical Machines of Rowland Emett', Ditchling Museum, May-September 2015;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, October-November 2021, no 241

High time they did something about a bath-chair man-power pool ...
At a sedate British seaside resort, elderly gentlemen are transported uphill in a train of Bath chairs, a forerunner of the invalid carriage often seen at spas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rowland Emett's ingenious idea of linking them in trains provides one solution to the reduction in size of the able-bodied male civilian workforce during the Second World War. The cartoon, ... And there's just one slight formality ... similarly alludes to the 'servant problem', and especially the staffing of large country estates, during the war.

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