Medical vehicles

[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

[Radek]

ambulances in WH

[Les Freathy]

A Morris type Y light ambulance most likley RAF type 1701
cheers
Les

[cliff]

from the AWM and an unknown source. Both taken during WW2. One in Hay New South Wales, Australia and the other in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

[Mike K]

Cliff

How many miles per gallon do those carts do ?

The Hay pic: would have been the POW internment camp there I would imagine.

Years ago the MV club here went on a trip to look over the Murchison WW2 POW camp in central Victoria ...it was interesting seeing the remains of it all hidden away in the bush ... Odd sights, like the elaborate stone memorial built by German POWs , looking strange sitting by itself in a lonely paddock . And the fancy entrance gates looking totally out of place in a isolated bush setting .We had a tour laid on by a local club member , the Cooler is still there , where they locked up the ' bad boys '. The Kormoran survivors were interned there too and and least one returned to live in the district after the war . Apart from the cooler , there was only one original building still intact ,complete with barbed wire surounds . We had contemporary pics to compare it all . Examples of the large old gum trees were still standing and we matched the scenes from the WW2 photos as if it was 1942 again, the trees matched up perfectly . Eerie feeling overall.

Mike

[cliff]

AWM photo showing an RAAF flying Doctor Service with an Indian Bodied Ambulance in the back ground at Mareeba in North Queensland.

[cliff]

here is an oddball Chevrolet Indian Pattern Ambulance. Oddball in the fact that it is built on a Long Wheelbase Chassis rather then the SWB chassis normally used.

Photo was from Pictures Australia and part captioned..... A and D room 119 Australian General Hospital 1942

[Les Freathy]

What can anyone tell me about this ambulance in Polish service in the UK, it is built around a 30cwt Ford and the radiator looks to be the early civilian pattern 7V type
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.

[Dusonn]

I bet not many of you apart of Radek have seen this one before. This car is owned by a friend of mine Vilem Fencl who saved it from a scrap few years ago. It is 1940 International Harvester D15M made in USA. It has got a very interesting history. In 1941 there were two of these ambulances donated to Czechoslovak Brigade Group in the UK by Czechoslovak countrymen living in the USA. One was equiped as a Dentists surgery and one as a Surgical ambulance. Only one survived and recently underwent complex restoration. The period photos are from ceremonial handover in Leamington Spa.You can see Czechoslovak soldier proudly standing beside the vans. Another picture shows some of them reading brass plate bolted on the side which says the following:
Donated by:
NARODNI SVAZ CESKYCH KATOLIKU V AMERICE
(stands for National Assosiation of Czech Catholics in America)

FEDERATION OF
AMERICAN CZECHOSLOVAKS
OF TEXAS

SPONSORED BY
CZECH-AMERICAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE
OF AMERICA

The last two pictures show its current state.

[Niels V]

A danish used C30