Industrial adjustable stool with footrest, produced for the Royal Air Force in the 1940s
1940s elm seat adjustable stool made for the RAF by Rubery Owen
A great looking, unique early 20th century stool which rotates, raises and lowers, produced for the Royal Air Force by Rubery Owen.
With a solid Elm seat which rotates on a threaded post which will lower our raise the seat over a range of 16cm.
The unique design of this RAF stool sees the slotted post divide up in consecutive pairs of iron bands which were twisted around to form the tripod legs. Tripod stools are always the most stable as all three legs will always be in contact with the floor, not always the case when there’s four.
The completely unique part of this stool is the footrest, which has been added, possibly by a later user who needed the seat high but then somewhere for their feet when they could no longer reach the floor. It is made up of several stained and patinated pieces of pine screwed together, with a roughly hewn hole to the centre for the stool post.
At the ends of the three iron legs are lead balls.
Rubery Owen were established in 1884 in the West Midlands, manufacturing products particularly for the automotive and aerospace industries.
This stool is a great piece of RAF and English industrial history, and an attractive and very useful seat.
Measures 54-70cm tall and the nearly round seat measures 29.5-30.5cm diameter. The foot bar is 33cm wide and the approximate
Original price was: £250.£165Current price is: £165.
1940s elm seat adjustable stool made for the RAF by Rubery Owen
A great looking, unique early 20th century stool which rotates, raises and lowers, produced for the Royal Air Force by Rubery Owen.
With a solid Elm seat which rotates on a threaded post which will lower our raise the seat over a range of 16cm.
The unique design of this RAF stool sees the slotted post divide up in consecutive pairs of iron bands which were twisted around to form the tripod legs. Tripod stools are always the most stable as all three legs will always be in contact with the floor, not always the case when there’s four.
The completely unique part of this stool is the footrest, which has been added, possibly by a later user who needed the seat high but then somewhere for their feet when they could no longer reach the floor. It is made up of several stained and patinated pieces of pine screwed together, with a roughly hewn hole to the centre for the stool post.
At the ends of the three iron legs are lead balls.
Rubery Owen were established in 1884 in the West Midlands, manufacturing products particularly for the automotive and aerospace industries.
This stool is a great piece of RAF and English industrial history, and an attractive and very useful seat.
Measures 54-70cm tall and the nearly round seat measures 29.5-30.5cm diameter. The foot bar is 33cm wide and the approximate
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