Ambulances

We seem to have run out of material and links for hearses.
I have been stockpiling ambulances, but don't have as much.
Today's kick start: four from Sandown on Sun.18.11. Two are in a Sandown thread already.
The modern ambulance wasn't a display item: a team was working on a collapsed participant or spectator.

Is the MASH reference on the older one just for fun, or had it been used as a film prop somewhere/sometime?









Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Hey Roderick, the best one was up the back at Lake Goldsmith i think it was from the teens-Flatheadfordfan liked it and probably remembers make/model. Anyone get pics of it?

Dodge Bro's I'm told

Hopefully the Goldsmith coverage will get posted.
Here are two other kick starts, both of which have appeared in other threads already.

From the rear view, I can't tell the chassis under 388, an ambulance with a pun numberplate (my photo).
781221Th-Woodend-ambulance388-ILL080-RSmith

From 'Raggsie': 1988 F250 was a Jakab ambulance in its previous life.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Here ya go Rodders...

1994 VR Commodore was a Jakab ambulance in its previous life.

Below is the combination, although that body was not off that ute..

chocs

Jeeze th@ AmBullAntz wood get a good werk out with orll them Crummins
LOL

Thanks for the contribution: there must be a lot more images out there in member land.

I had a wonderful url on ambulance history.
www.colacambulance.com/ambulance%201961%20-%201970.htm (a wonderful comprehensive site)
Amazing diversity of chassis.

In searching for it again, I found a lot more links:
www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/Paramedics/Our-...etcher-vehicles.html
www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/Education/Interactive-Activities.html
including a link to bicycle ambulances in Victoria
www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/About-Us/History.html
www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/Paramedics/Our-Vehicles.html
www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_keats/1666675907 (Humber Super Snipe ambulance, with links to other photos of the type)
www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_keats/1666652281
www.flickr.com/photos/87791108@N00/5629559344
www.flickr.com/photos/46046969@N03/4316347929
blog.retro-classics.co.nz/?p=1834 (scroll down a little for a 1949 Humber Pullman ambulance at a NZ rally)

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Got a couple of old Qld ones for ya,





I wouldn't want to ride in either.

This 1942 Chev ex army ambulance sold at a clearing sale about 12 months ago

Hey BK,
Hope they secure the Stretcher Trolley very securely.......

It's got "The Keystone Cops" written all over It