About this objectA leatherette covered wooden box with large silver chromed handle at short end of box and a small push-button locking mechanism. Lid swings upwards. On lid is a fixed pressure gauge with cream coloured celluloid strip with black printed numbered scale. A red edged label is on inside of lid next to the gauge.
'The Armoured/Ellisco/Sphygmomanometer/Made by Elliotts & Australian Drug/Pty Ltd/Certified/Centenary Model'.
'P.N.T.S' is hand engraved on silver metal cylinder at bottom of gauge and metal plate below gauge.
A rubber hose is attached to cylinder which initially is black and straight flexible tubing which then attaches to a coiled green section which attaches to another section of black straight flexible tubing.
The tubing ends in a cotton cuff with a black cotton label with 'Accoson'/Sphygmomanometer/Standard/for Blood Pressure/British Made' in white, sewn by machine, onto cuff.
Another short black tube sewn into cuff ends in a black rubber pump bulb.
