No, don't worry, E.T. hasn't landed. This picture, from 1936, shows types of "modern rescue and resuscitation appliances used by Bolton Corporation Gas Department to safeguard their employees".
The photograph, taken at the Gas Street works, showed a demonstration of reviving a gassed worker, with other types of apparatus on view.
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