Exhibition Label Text: Trophy, 1922. Presented by the Lothian Coal Company Ltd. to the Members
of the Newbattle Ambulance ~Section for the annual competition, December 1922.
Urn shaped silver trophy with scroll handles mounted on a black plastic plinth. on plinth-27.5 x 21.0 x 13.0 cm
Digital image on Keeper’s computer – S:/Keeper/MyPictures/Exhibitions/DisplayNewVisitorCentre. Taken December 2003.
Ambulance competitions were used to encourage men to take first aid courses as that was the prime pre-requisite for taking part. Such competitions became common from the 1890s on.
