Ice Cold In Alex

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

In VINTAGE ROADSCENE issue 87

http://www.ianallanpublishing.com/ca..._roadscene.htm

[Note this may be the old issue 86]

there is a letter from Australian RUPERT CONDICK which referred to K2Y ambulance A121370, the number being carried by K2Y A1211558 for some scenes in ICE COLD IN ALEX, now in the ambulance museum. The ambulance that featured in most of the film, he said, also numbered A121370 was a 'Canadian Military Pattern Chevrolet C30 (it could have been a C60S, but I think that this was unlikely) which was fitted with an Austin/Mann Egerton body. From what little I know CMP Chev's never had ambulance bodies, only CMP F60L (Fords had ambulance bodies, but there was a shortage of four-wheel drive ambulance bodies towardds the end of the war. I have heard that KATY was a stock vehicle from the motor pool at Aelexandria but someone went to some trouble to move the controls around. Such conversion would make sense, being smaller than the Ford version!...'

The British had C60L ambulances with Lindsay-style 'house' bodies and there were indeed similar F60Ls but there were no domestic Chev C30/C60S ambulances.