pictures of Armbruster amulances

[John ED Renstrom]

now I asked this question in a different thread. any one have any pictures of Armbruster ambulances. before there acquisition of Stageway and going into mostly the buses and limos Armbruster and Co would do the drop off you existing sedan deliver or truck and they would convert it to a ambulance or Hearse for you. just one of a number of smaller companies doing this one at a time kind of thing. Abmbruster was not fussy what brand you had. they would convert anything. we have two rigs in the membership that have never been fully identified as to builder one the 55 GMC Todd had and this 53 Pontiac I have both have the same roof treatment. the 55 panel was guessed as a Yankee. the poncho as a Economy. Yankee never built any thing but trucks and none of then with that roof treatment. the doors are different on the only picture of a Economy sedan deliver I have, as are the roof treatments in there drawings of ambulances and there quarter glass etchings. the only pictures of a armbruster ambulance I can find comes from a advising flier and is a side view of a ford panel. the front view is of a ford truck with out the tunnel lights showing only the stock ford roof. so does anyone have one pictures of a ambulance built by armbruster?

 

[Todd Merrifield]

If you're curious about my 57 GMC, give Joe Ortiz a call. You can get his number from Kevin O'Connell, I don't have access to it at the moment. He has the only other GMC left from the same batch that is known to exist, and I believe he either worked out of it, or was at least around when it was in service. It's possible his has some identification markings on it still that mine did not. I doubt anyone else would know more about it than those two.

One other distinctive feature of mine is that the rear side windows were " tunneled in", so to speak. In other words, at the bottom edge of the window there was about a 1-2" ledge that came out to meet the body panel, rather than the window being mounted flush, with just a rubber gasket. That is different than the picture you posted.

 

[Ron Devies]

Armbruster Stageway

Did they make any station wagon ambulances? I remember when I worked at the funeral home we had another firm come to pick up a body at our place. The came in a Buick station wagon set up as an ambulance say circa 1974 or 75. If so does anyone have any pictures? I remember it was kind of a neat set up.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

this was the picture of the add that Attila posted that prompted my inquiry. I'm betting there are a number of them floating around. but as you don't see a name plate it gets labeled one of the others. this 53 of mine has to much attention to detailed and necessary things made up to not be built by a practiced builder. now back in the 50s you could by enough stuff to add the equipment to anything and have a ambulance. but this car is way past that. with just enough rinky dink to let you know it was built in a for profit kind of place.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

got this one off a advertisement for Armbruster. surprising how much stuff is out there. but never what you need. the did use a neat window treatment on this one.

 

[Steve Lichtman]

Here's another Armbruster ad I got on-line. I have a set of Armbruster ambulance ads that Dad acquired years ago (real ones, not on-line ones), which I will have to find and scan.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

notice the different quarter window treatment on that one. I had to buy the GM one from auto lit. wanted a better copy then the low resolution scan and it might come to pass. you notice there list of options reads vary close to the one Joe posted from national. along with there prices. I was hoping to find a picture of the roof with tunnel lights from the front. the side profile looks vary encouraging. here is the rest of that add. notice they put the gurney on the right and the attendants seat behind the drivers on the short wheel base. that way there was more room to put the longer gurney in.