This item is in the category “Business & Industrial\Facility Maintenance & Safety\Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)\Masks & Respirators\Other Masks & Respirators”. Top 5 Unusual Gas Masks Love Bizarre Oddities 505 subscribers Subscribe 23K views 5 years ago 5. The item “Rare authentic UK Mickey Mouse kids gas mask ww2 with complete kit” is in sale since Tuesday, October 19, 2021. Paper, instructions, mask and box are in the one of the finest shapes you can find and is a valuable historical piece from ww2. The Mickey Mouse Gas Mask was designed for small children in a valiant attempt to give them something that would work and still be fun.
UK used blue asbestos in their mask, also activated charcoal and this mask contains it. This is a non used gasmask with intact filter. Later they also called it Mickey Mouse, but it never made sense and not even today because there is non Mickey Mouse look at the mask. Mickey Mouse Childrens Gas Mask Hide image caption In the lead-up to World War II there were fears that the Germans would attack the UK with poisonous gas, so by 1938 the government had issued. UK designed their mask with sharp colors so it looked more friendly. The story for the US mask was to make kids want to wear it because it’s Mickey Mouse and not a scary respirator. On display with the Childs Mickey Mouse gas mask is a gas mask for babies which is designed to cover the top half of the child and strap around them like a nappy which allows means only their legs are exposed. The name comes from the American Mickey Mouse who was actually designed by Walt Disney. It’s made for children use and were for kids in UK. In ww2 the us goverment issues disney to make mickey mouse gas masks for kids thinking they would be more likely to wear them.my socialsinstagramjusta. This was kindly funded by Museums Galleries Scotland and allows us to better our Museum collection by making the gas masks we have in our possession safe for public viewing and for staff who work with the objects.This is a real complete Mickey Mouse gasmask from ww2/wwII. All of its rear blue harness straps are totally undamaged & there is no cracking to the lenses.
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These two gas masks were made safe by a professional from Kadec Asbestos Management with some of the other gas masks we had kept in the Museums store cupboard. WW2 Childrens Gas Mask Respirator Mickey Mouse, (Boxed), British 1939 ad vertisement by newVintageliVe. A Mickey Mouse gas mask with red 1941 dated facepiece. It is likely that the pump didnt push enought air into the mask and the babies came close to suffocating, luckily this was never put to the test. There were also reports that during demonstrations babies fell asleep and became unnaturally still inside the masks. Many paretn doubted these masks as they were very skeptical about putting their child in a completey air tight mask. These gas masks were fitted with an asbestos filter which absorbed poisonous gas, attached to this was a rubber tube with a handle which was used to pump air into the mask which would be used by the child’s parent or any other adult present.
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These gas masks were tied securely which made it air-tight, and had a big visor so that the child could see out of it. These gas masks were issued to every child up to 2 years old in 1938 when all citizens were issued a gas mask in the event of an outbreak of war. On display with the Childs Mickey Mouse gas mask is a gas mask for babies which is designed to cover the top half of the child and strap around them like a nappy which allows means only their legs are exposed. 10 million of these masks were made and distributed in 1938 in the event of the outbreak of war. Kids were sometimes told to wear the masks in class while they were at school, presumably to get the children more used to wearing them so they wouldn’t struggle or refuse to put them on in the event of a gas attack. The Mickey Mouse Gas Mask was designed for small children in a valiant attempt to give them something that would work and still be fun. Children were asked to keep their masks within reach at all times, which meant they had to take them to school stored in a box with string on it to go over the child’s shoulder, they also had to keep them next to their bed at night and when they were doing general activities in the event of a sudden German gas attack. Walt Disney Showing Sketch Of Mickey Mouse Gas Mask To Chemical Warfare Officer wall art for home and office dcor. The Mickey Mouse gasmask was utterly terrifying in 1942 and it still is WAR is utterly terrifying. These masks were desinged to look like Mickey Mouse to appeal more to children and to encourage them to wear them. One of the gas masks which we have on display within the Museum is a kids Mickey Mouse gas mask from WW2.
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