Ambulance in a Museum

Steve Lichtman

Steve Lichtman

Tom Shafer sent me a link to an interesting museum, which has an ambulance in it. Ambulances in museums are pretty rare, so that's why I bring it to your attention.

It's a '65 Springfield International Travelette (not Travelall) panel truck.

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Now, I don't expect folks to be beating a path to this museum due to it's location. Yes, it's the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon. What Alaska is for Americans, Yukon is for Canadians. It's way up there. And the ambulance served Elsa, Yukon (I have no idea where that is.)

OK, so the museum is a little remote. But it's there. So next time you're on vacation in Whitehorse, stop in!
 
travelette?

Steve,
I think this is a Travelall. Travelette was the designation we used for our 4 door crew cab pick up trucks. This has a one piece top and the quarter window blanking panels. So I think Travelall. I probably put the windshield and a few other parts in this one before it went to the conversion shop. 65 was my first year at IH.
Mike
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Looks like that rear fender says "Travelette" and not "Travelall" to me. There's another letter after the two taller letters at the end.
 
looks are deceiving

Steve,
Click on the museum name in the posting. This Travelall comes up on their webpage. Then click on the picture of the Travelall.
Then amount of work to cut a Travelette back panel off and then ad a longer roof section and rear doors would have been too costly. What looks like ette in the picture is the all and then the final stroke as if you were writing the word out. They put a tail on the last L.
The museun list it as a Travelall from the Yukon.
Now what was that bet?
Mike
 
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Lets hear it for us Canuks... :applause:
Just south of me in here in Edmonton, we have the Reynolds Museum. Originally started up as a collection by Stan Reynolds..now owned by the Alberta Govt.
The "old car" club I'm a member of was given a tour of the "holding warehouse". A HUGE (10,000+ sq/yrds) building of automobiles, trucks, planes, motorcycles, farm eq. that the public DOSEN'T get to see. These are items that are waiting for restoration to go on display in the main museum.

And this was an item of interest for me...

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t269/Rick65Cat/1954 Pontiac Hearse/buickhearse.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t269/Rick65Cat/1954 Pontiac Hearse/buickhearse2.jpg

Dunno when if ever in my life it will go on display.
 
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