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15-06-18, 19:27
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Lots....
Yes.
How about 'lots' as an answer? Not in the office to be more definitive. The AWM collection of images is primarily interested/focused on war and warlike operations, so much of the peace-time equipment is not featured/recorded. Mike 
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15-06-18, 20:39
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Mike Cecil wrote a two part article on Australian ambulances for KVE News about 4 years ago, I have attached a direct link to it here, it is on the Corowa Swim-In website. This is Part 1 ;
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/49442...c2c8340657.pdf As you will see in the download there were some Austin K2 ambulances in service in Australia during WW2. Part 2, which covers from 1956 to 2012 is here: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/49442...a03c3c1681.pdf regards, Richard
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16-06-18, 00:43
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Hi Lionel,
Austin Champ (including the Australian army) had a kit that enabled two stretchers to be carried lengthwise behind the driver, this included an extension for the soft top so they were enclosed. Some kits were a curio found in the surplus sales unused, and involved a lot of head scratching to work out how it all worked. I have seen one poor photo of an ambulance Champ lined up in convoy, having trouble locating it though. So this would be 1956 and a very brief period after.... Rich. Additional- Can't find the Aussy pic, but this is a British one, would have been the same kit.
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C60S Austin Champ x 2 Humber 1 Ton & Trailer Last edited by Richard Coutts-Smith; 16-06-18 at 13:00.
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16-06-18, 08:50
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Thanks Richard, for the links. I had a feeling I had written something on ambulances in general, but couldn't remember the 'when and what'!!
Mike
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16-06-18, 12:22
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Hello All,
Thank you Richard plus Richard and especially Mike for providing such detailed information. Thank you Richard F for sending the links to Mike's two articles. Kind Regards Lionel
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17-06-18, 09:02
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From the Williamstown FB page
At the end of World War 2, as the ambulances from the returning hospital ship Oranje, and subsequent Hospital Ships, dispersed the wounded and ill servicemen around Melbourne, this scene was repeated many times in suburbs around Melbourne.
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17-06-18, 09:19
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Humber
That is a interesting pic. The car in the foreground appears to be a 1948 Humber Pullman Mk11 . The reg. plate on the Humber has three letters and numbers ?
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