Amazingly, I lived thru and used a lot of the stuff pictured too! -SC-

One clarification I’d like to make is that the E and J Lifeport III was actually a Lytport III. I’ve even found a Fire Engineering magazine with the device advertised. How many firemen were grateful for its development I cannot imagine.

E and J also made the humongously heavy resuscitators preceding the Lytport. E and J became Ohio Chemical. If I remember well Life Support Products took their emergency respirator product line over. From there…. Emerson also manufactured iron lungs and was taken over by Respironics. Respironics stopped supporting the few iron lung devices that were sustaining polio victims a few years ago. They were in turn bought out by Philips.

Another thing I noted is that the prone-pressure manual method of artificial respiration was used with many resuscitators/inhalators in the Fifties and earlier. But weren’t resuscitators used on non-breathing patients even before the demand valve?

I’ve also read about ambulance attendants, when riding in the back of old ambulances with the manifold-powered suction units, requesting the driver to modify his acceleration based on when suction was applied. I found out why when injecting Seafoam into the loosened brake vacuum hose of my old Honda!

Take care
KT

The article states that “Flower cars are still being built today, but they are expensive. Companies such as Accubuilt and Eagle produce these unusual vehicles, but only on a special order basis and the cost of the vehicle must be paid up-front.”

Superior is now a brand offered by Accubuilt and not a stand alone coach builder as they were in 1984 when the article references the discontinuing of the flower car. Also, according to the most current information from the Accubuilt Website, Superior does not currently offer a flower car in their product listings. S&S has a flower car available. But Superior does not. A Superior branded Flower car would be a special order.