Ambulances

I was dredging through flickr for a photo of the famous zoo carts, and found this photo of an air-ambulance helicopter in the carpark out of season. Perhaps this was a training run?
In season, air-ambulance and regular Falls Creek shuttles use a spot higher up, at one side of a beginners' run.

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Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Some more from Israel I found on the Harvard U Israel archives...

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/22847292?viewheight=429&height=429&width=600&viewwidth=600

This in Tel-Aviv in the 1930s - the fire brigade and the ambulance service used to share the same stations back then. Are those Chevies?

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/8683965?viewheight=443&height=443&width=600&viewwidth=600

Opening ceremony for a Jerusalem Magen David Adom (Red David Shield, the Israeli equivalent to the Red Cross) station in 1949, just after the War of Independence, which explains the mixed vehicle collection.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/19606153?viewheight=600&height=600&width=595&viewwidth=595

It can snow heavily in Jerusalem and in 1950 it was bad. Looks like a Bedford.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14679579?viewheight=588&height=588&width=600&viewwidth=600

There's a bemused look on the "patient's" face, I wonder why...

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14684574?viewheight=600&height=600&width=562&viewwidth=562

A Willys from the Israeli assembly line in Haifa.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14683003?viewheight=600&height=600&width=578&viewwidth=578

Jerusalem again in front of one of a fleet of Diamond T 202s used in the 1950s.

More...

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14823095?viewheight=569&height=569&width=600&viewwidth=600
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14825787?viewheight=600&height=600&width=568&viewwidth=568

A Chev bus used as a mobile clinic in the 1950s and the 1960s.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14826578?viewheight=574&height=574&width=600&viewwidth=600

A smaller C10 fitted as an ambulance by US coachbuilder Franklin.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14698185?viewheight=600&height=600&width=600&viewwidth=600
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14699386?viewheight=594&height=594&width=600&viewwidth=600

Blood donations in Jerusalem (bus is a Leyland Royal Tiger with local body).

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14563579?viewheight=419&height=419&width=600&viewwidth=600

Jailbar with US coachwork somewhere in the Galilee, late 40s.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14699025?viewheight=600&height=600&width=588&viewwidth=588
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14685609?viewheight=535&height=535&width=600&viewwidth=600

Jerusalem in the early 50s, the fleet has been somewhat updated with a mix of US and Pommy vehicles.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14828820?viewheight=600&height=600&width=584&viewwidth=584

a few years later with a Pommy Ford Thames 400 (?)

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/14824303?viewheight=600&height=600&width=569&viewwidth=569

They did not discriminate, this is I think an early German Ford Transit...

... and more

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262114?viewheight=437&height=437&width=600&viewwidth=600

Those D-Ts again

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262112?viewheight=411&height=411&width=600&viewwidth=600
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262076?viewheight=372&height=372&width=600&viewwidth=600
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262034?viewheight=456&height=456&width=600&viewwidth=600

30 CWT Ford with I think a Pommy bodywork in service at the Jezrael vale.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262066?viewheight=484&height=484&width=600&viewwidth=600
http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262060?viewheight=484&height=484&width=600&viewwidth=600

There were some Cadillacs with very oppulent (for Israel) bodywork, this is during a handing over ceremony in the US.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/15262077?viewheight=383&height=383&width=600&viewwidth=600

That's an unusual one - a Citroen, very rare in this use in Israel.

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/view/26792509?viewheight=378&height=378&width=600&viewwidth=600

Last one for today again in Tel-Aviv. Chev might be ex-Aussie army, your chaps left some unwanted vehicles after WWII in the country...

Cheers

T

More fascinating pictures Tatra, in your first photo, the ambulance is a Chevy, the fire truck-with the "widow's peak" radiator surround is an S series International-1927-29.

IH of course... Not my era, the 1920s lol.

This thread has had a very impressive diversity: road, rail, water & air, pure ambulances and clinic/hospital vehicles.

The sheer diversity of types in Israel resulting from donations from a range of sources must have been a mechanical nightmare in all eras. The quantity has been a surprise as well.

Today, another related vehicle. This isn't a clinic as such, it is a mobile vision-testing carriage for railway employees. This one was operated by South Australian Railways. Victorian Railways also had one, probably the other systems. As employment in remote areas went down, it became easier to bring the people to the big city, or to privatise the testing.

680603M Adelaide vision-testing car 495 R Smith
This carriage had been built for narrow gauge, but was now on broad gauge. Hence it is narrow and lower than the adjacent vehicles, and sitting higher than in its ng era too.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Tatra
In post 553 with the stretcher side on is that to fit more in

Geoffrey B.When i saw your name and ambulances together,I got worried .Thought you may have had an arm amputated

.....i guess Israel has always had an abundance of various ambulance types, as there has always been a good reason to need 'em....

....hopefully one day the whole region may calm down ....