Medical vehicles

[Radek]

Originally Posted by Noel Burgess

Ambulance rear doors -
All the period photos, except perhaps post #34, seem to suggest that the inside of ambulance rear doors were painted same colour as outside and that the rest of the inside was white/cream - have some of the restorers got this wrong?

Hi,

all the inside ambulance box was white or cream!!!
It is possible that is on the 34 wehrmacht modification.

Radek

[rewdco]

Can't remember having seen this one before on the MLU forum. Definitely an ambulance, no idea about the make however... Who knows?
Regards,
Jan

[cliff]

Originally Posted by rewdco

Can't remember having seen this one before on the MLU forum. Definitely an ambulance, no idea about the make however... Who knows?

The ambulance is an early Standard 14hp 4X2 with car type radiator grill

[Les Freathy]

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now
just a thought
cheers
Les

[Radek]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now
just a thought
cheers
Les

The scrap is the german scrap during ww2.
Radek

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

Radeks photo of the pile of scrap vehicles makes one stop and think, today they call us a wasteful and throw away world but many of those in that picture look as if they would have done further service or at least a supply of spares so little has changed in 60 odd years. I know we have heard many times of the massive glut of military equipment in the late 1940s but with the British economy being in a almost collapse situation at the time one would have expected a little more thought could have been shown but what a restorers dream to find that pile now

Les,

Just to put things in a little perspective, the picture of that pile of British trucks was taken in the mid-1950s in Germany.

Would not mind having that pile in my backyard, though!

Cheers,
Hanno

[Radek]

nice!!!

[Les Freathy]

here are a few medical vehicles in WW2 from the Turnbull library depicting New Zealand units in Italy plus 1 from WW1
cheers
Les

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by cliff

The ambulance is an early Standard 14hp 4X2 with car type radiator grill

Cliff,
I may be wrong , but it looks like a Morris Y 14 hp model . The Standard had a more rounded grill .

Mike

[cliff]

Mike looking at Barts bible it was a toss up between the Standard and Morris. The Standard photo showed the same body and tyre on the roof whereas the morris did not have the roof mounted tyre and had a different body on it.

[ted angus]

Cliff sorry to disagree but it is a MORRIS Y; one is illustrated on page 11 of Harry Edwards "Morris Commercial Vehicles". The Morris Y as illustrated carrying the body of the Duke of Kent after he was killed in the Sunderland Flying boat accident became the most common RAF Home service domestic ambulance. They also served on ARP duties manned by various voluntary groups accross the UK. The attached is post D Day ; the lineup of ambulances including a Austin K2 belonging to the War organisation of St Johns & The British Red Cross are awaiting the arrival of a casualty carrying Dakota.

[cliff]

Originally Posted by ted angus

Cliff sorry to disagree but it is a MORRIS Y;

Ted never be sorry to correct a mistake as I am always ready to be corrected especially on things like this. As I said in my last post it was a toss up between the two based on my interpritation of the photos in Bart's book.