Model life raft frame: Sergeant A Worsfold, AIF Research Section, Imber Court Experimental Grounds

Expanding/contracting structure consisting of 155 mm long lengths of 5 mm diameter bamboo, pinned together at each end, and in the middle, to operate in a scissors motion. When expanded, the structure tends to form a circle. Contracts down to a rectangle 155mm length x 90 mm width x 20mm depth.

This model illustrates one of the many inventions of 12096 Private Alexander Worsfold, 9th Australian Field Ambulance.