Ron Devies
PCS Ohio Chapter President PCS Past Vice President
Weren't they those ugly lime green Ford LTD wagons?
Station wagon ambulances
- Thread starter Steve Loftin
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Weren't they those ugly lime green Ford LTD wagons?
Yep...those were the ones....seems like they were two tone....RUST and slime green
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By chance did you mean claustrophobics?
Probably. Hard to say, I posted it at night. I'm usually bushed after 9.
Kent Dorsey
PCS Member / Funeral Director
wagons
never forget my dads 65 olds vista cruiser conversion. low boy stretcher. 2 beacons and a b&m under the hood. my older brother decided to go into the ambulance buisness on his own and hey had a 65 ford wagon fron gordon k. allen. my dad bought a 62 & a 63 chevy wagon that had belonged to bell helicopter in fworth. 327's 3 on the tree. 4 lollipops, q2 and a model 17 on both. used em for standbys at racetracks. memories are flooding back...thanks steve...
never forget my dads 65 olds vista cruiser conversion. low boy stretcher. 2 beacons and a b&m under the hood. my older brother decided to go into the ambulance buisness on his own and hey had a 65 ford wagon fron gordon k. allen. my dad bought a 62 & a 63 chevy wagon that had belonged to bell helicopter in fworth. 327's 3 on the tree. 4 lollipops, q2 and a model 17 on both. used em for standbys at racetracks. memories are flooding back...thanks steve...
1963 Ford wagon - "Hellfighters"
It's hard to tell in the one photo, but I seem to remember the whistle being a CS8B:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=240148
I'd sure like to know what firm owned this car. It likely belonged to whichever funeral home was closest to where this scene was shot.
It's hard to tell in the one photo, but I seem to remember the whistle being a CS8B:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=240148
I'd sure like to know what firm owned this car. It likely belonged to whichever funeral home was closest to where this scene was shot.
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
Found this serie on the City of Montreal (Que) archives. It's from the public domain so no copyright... Would love to share them with you they are too neat to be kept, we are back in 1963 when the Montreal police department was the only free ambulance service in the city. They used to have a fleet of 2 door patrol cars radio equipped, another fleet of station wagons and they bought some IH that year also.
I think those color pictures were taken for a publicity or something like that, note the "too clean" police package Ford custom in background.
I think those color pictures were taken for a publicity or something like that, note the "too clean" police package Ford custom in background.
That picture was taken about 8 miles from my current office. Paul U. Lee would have probably been the closest funeral home. They are no longer in business in Baytown but now operate just over the Hartman Bridge in La Porte. That photo was taken near what is now the Fred Hartman Bridge which traverses the Houston Ship Channel in the City of Baytown, Texas.
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Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Found this serie on the City of Montreal (Que) archives. It's from the public domain so no copyright... Would love to share them with you they are too neat to be kept, we are back in 1963 when the Montreal police department was the only free ambulance service in the city. They used to have a fleet of 2 door patrol cars radio equipped, another fleet of station wagons and they bought some IH that year also.
I think those color pictures were taken for a publicity or something like that, note the "too clean" police package Ford custom in background.
That's gotta be one of the shortest cut beacon skirts I've ever seen on anything!
Paul U. Lee - Baytown was taken over at some point by Navarre Funeral Home. Jess Navarre ran the ambulance service in the City of Baytown during the 70's - 80's time period and until the City of Baytown Health Department took over EMS. They ran EMS until two months ago and all EMS functions have now been taken over by Baytown Fire/Rescue.
Of some note, Jess Navarre joined forces with a well known operator/collector by the name of Diamond, Steve Diamond, and they formed Navarre-Diamond which ran for a time in the late 80's-early 90's.
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
That's a canadian Dominion Auto 4 way alternative flasher. The lights are fixed and not rotative. Believe it or not Montreal used them until 1974!
navarre
had some friends who drove and rode for jess. was friens with my mom and r, s. bill jr. who operated mercy corps. ray thomson also knew him well and we have been friends for 4o years. jess never did me wrong.
had some friends who drove and rode for jess. was friens with my mom and r, s. bill jr. who operated mercy corps. ray thomson also knew him well and we have been friends for 4o years. jess never did me wrong.
Wow, that picture gives new meaning to the term, "picking up a stiff." With all that snow, I guess all patients must be like that in Montreal.Found this serie on the City of Montreal (Que) archives. ...
Wayne Krakowski
PCS Member
Notice the foot of the stretcher has one of those (nut) buster handles,old medics will know what I mean
Kent Martinson - Deceased 1947 - 2019
December 7, 1947 - February 19, 2019
Notice the foot of the stretcher has one of those (nut) buster handles,old medics will know what I mean
Those handles were much worse when on the head end.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
what I chuckled over was once they got the pt on the gurney how were they going to get them in and ambulance. it's a staged shot and they wanted both cars in it. the end gate on the ambulance is closed so that they can do the load pt on gurney between the cars for the camera shot. then endless possibility of how the cars got tucked around the guy down or why they carried him to the gurney not vice verse and all that are mine boggling.
