Martin Harvey
PCS Member
Yes probably a cheap home-made built, you can identify the wood veneer floor without linoleum haha. I asked about those lights on another post .. they are 1961 plymouth tail lights!
Carryall ambulance photos
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There are pics floating around in cyberspace of at least two modular units that were built with TWO rear axles. One is a type I and the other is a type III.
Please forgive me if I missed something - what does this have to do with carryall ambulances?
I think it remotely connects through Starline, which built the Suburban I posted, and also built the tandem axle mods.
Steve T., if you repost your question/comment in the "Slightly Off Topic" forum, I'll put up some tandem axle photos - Starline built a lot of them. But we'll keep this thread for the Carryalls/Suburbans/Travelalls.
Steve T., if you repost your question/comment in the "Slightly Off Topic" forum, I'll put up some tandem axle photos - Starline built a lot of them. But we'll keep this thread for the Carryalls/Suburbans/Travelalls.
Virginia Beach, VA
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Ambulances prepare to transport patients on moving day at the General Hospital of Virginia Beach. by rylie_trenchard, on Flickr[/img]
Ambulances prepare to transport patients on moving day at the General Hospital of Virginia Beach. by rylie_trenchard, on Flickr[/img]
I think they shut down in 1983 after the fiasco with the New York trucks. They had the contract for New York City and the city refused the first batch and went to Wheeled Coach. I think that ended Prestige.
The trucks weren't that bad. The boxes were good to work in, they just bought every 400 and 351 engined chassis they could get to make the demand.
Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018
August 19, 1945 - July 26, 2018
The only Prestige ambulances I ever saw in service belonged to the State School in Lubbock. Both were Type II Chevies c.1981.
I was surprised to learn a while back that Carl Becker was also a partner in B&B Coach. Interesting!
These photos clearly show the difference between roof caps on the 1971-72 (54" headroom) and 1968-70 (52") models:
Wakefield, NE
1972 Sentinel
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays a true procar photographer from the swift completion of his rounds." Originally white, this girl was originally purchased by the Loran-Fawcett F.H., and then turned over to the fire department when they exited the ambulance business:
Neodesha, KS
1970 Sentinel
Wakefield, NE
1972 Sentinel
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays a true procar photographer from the swift completion of his rounds." Originally white, this girl was originally purchased by the Loran-Fawcett F.H., and then turned over to the fire department when they exited the ambulance business:
Neodesha, KS
1970 Sentinel
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Airlift of tuberculosis patients dated 8.16.54.
Image courtesy Alaska Digital Archives.
Image courtesy Alaska Digital Archives.
Confirmed to be from Deer Park, NY.
Brendan Martin
PCS Member
1969 or 70 Sentinel
Lake Charles, LA
Anyone have pictures of the old Holsten's Red Flash"? It was a carryall as I recall from seeing it as a youth when we worked an air show at Chennault Field in Lake Charles, circa '77 or so.
Anyone have pictures of the old Holsten's Red Flash"? It was a carryall as I recall from seeing it as a youth when we worked an air show at Chennault Field in Lake Charles, circa '77 or so.
Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018
August 19, 1945 - July 26, 2018
You're really bringing up some memories there, Terry. I bought Peggy's '66 C/B Olds Seville ambulance c.1975 from Summers, and it was one of her "Red Flash" ambulances. I would guess that the Suburban replaced the Olds. The last one of her ambulances I saw was an almost-turquoise colored '74 Chevrolet MAC Modulvan that was sitting on Summers' lot the last time I was there in 1986.
The Olds was solid red and was devoid of lights and siren when I got the car, but the Red Flash graphics with the lightening streaks were still there. There were also two brackets that appeared to have gone to a set of C/B's torpedo lights on both front fenders. Just the brackets....no lights. We managed to make a decent-looking ambulance out of it with triple beacons and a Q on the roof and set of small red grille lights. Despite its age and how badly it looked when we got, it ran well and it became famous locally. In the summer of '76 when Mother, Jugs & Speed came out, one of the movie theaters in Lubbock borrowed the car and parked it in front of the theater with posters advertising the movie. One nice perk of the whole deal was that all ambulance personnel regardless of service were allowed to see the movie for free as many times as they wished so long as they came to the movie in an ambulance and in uniform.
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Thank you...
Great history. Never knew where it went, but we got a kick out that name way back when and always remembered it. Any pictures?
Great history. Never knew where it went, but we got a kick out that name way back when and always remembered it. Any pictures?
Skip Goulet - Deceased 1945 - 2018
August 19, 1945 - July 26, 2018
I had some pix of the car years ago, Tery, but they disappeared in 1989 when my '70 hightop Suburban ambulance was stolen. I had a big manilla envelope with all of my ambulance pictures dating back to 1969 in the glove compartment of that truck.
I also like the ditch lights, which were a seldom seen option in this era.