Ambulances

1989 Ford F-250 ambulance - Australian Army. JAKAB body.

1989 Ford F-250 ambulance - Australian Army by sv1ambo , on Flickr

1989 Ford F-250 ambulance - Australian Army by sv1ambo , on Flickr

1989 Ford F-250 ambulance - Australian Army by sv1ambo , on Flickr

1989 Ford F-250 ambulance - Australian Army by sv1ambo , on Flickr

1982 Ford F-100 ambulance - Parkes NSW. JAKAB body.

1982 Ford F-100 ambulance by sv1ambo , on Flickr

Alas, my stock is exhausted, but Paul is doing well. Do any WA members have anything (past or current)? More from NZ?

I don't have a photo of this one, but I do have a story of a human-powered improvised ambulance.
I was at a friend's wedding reception, in a typical pack-em-in crowded reception centre. With the warmth and emotion, his grandmother collapsed. The waiters had experience. Two squeezed up the aisle, picked her up on her chair as a litter, and tilted it over their shoulders. They carried her out in the style of a hunter retrieving a shot deer from the forest to a waiting 4wd. It wasn't anything serious; she had fainted and recovered promptly in the foyer, even before the ambulance arrived.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

I posted too soon. As scanned a Nov.00 HCVC rally photo for a forthcoming police-vehicle thread, I found three ambulances at the right of frame. Hopefully Paul can identify them.

Clayton, former drive-in cinema site: HCVC rally, ambulances. Sun.25.11.00 (Roderick Smith)

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

...hi Rodders .. have you got a piccy of the red Peterbilt cabover?.....she was there for the one and only Clayton turnout....great day it was too.....

I don't mind a challenge so here goes. The station wagon appears to be a Ford Falcon of the St John's Ambulance. The cream coloured unit next to it, I think, is a Humber Super Snipe which belongs to a member of the Ambulance Historical Society of Victoria, but not the Ambulance Museum. And the third one with the 2 visible in the fleet number on the rear door would most likely be the HQ 1 Tonner from the AHSV Museum, which carries fleet number 23, of which I posted a pic earlier in the thread.
Here is a pic of the Humber that someone else posted on Flickr,

20110417_0184 Humber Ambulance - 1964 by williewonker , on Flickr

Another came to light in a photo sent to RNV by my prolific contributor, Jeff Bounds.
He took it at Sunshine (Melbourne, Vic.) on Thurs.15.11.12. It is a modern type. I can't read the registration plate, the fleet number, or the vehicle type, but there may be sufficient clues for Paul to deduce the information. This is a crop at the full scanning resolution.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

At a glance a Ford Transit operated by a private patient transport operator.

Vienna, Austria

That's an ambulance too, converted IDF Sherman, late 1960s early 1970s



From the IDF Ordnance Corps site