Saw it but didn't want to offend the sensibilities of the genteel.
vintage multi-make photos
- Thread starter Attila Bethlenfalvy
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I know that my eyes are old and tired, but those vehicles are right hand
drive.........
drive.........
One of Vancouver's first motorized hearses going down Georgia St, dated 1914.
Stuart Thomson photographer and part of City of Vancouver Archives.
Say wait a second...why are both vehicles left hand drive? License plates read correctly so image has not been reversed. Hearse cropped/enlarged/enhanced:
Bill Carlin
PCS Life Member
several cars manufactured in the United States during the early part of the 20th century were right hand drive. In early cars, there was no "Standard"
Bill Carlin
PCS Life Member
Funeral of murdered Drivers 544 Union leader William Brown dated 5/29/38. Maybe Bill can date this Henney 3-way too.
Photo from Minneapolis Tribune and part of Minneapolis Photo Collection.
Cropped/enlarged:
Based on the single windshield, it would be a 1935-1937 Packard. Not enough of the actual Packard front end showing to do any better
Ambulance belonging to Penwell Funeral Home at 511 Quincy Street in Topeka, KS taken pre-1920.
Paul Harrison creator and part of Kansas Memory archives.
Paul Harrison creator and part of Kansas Memory archives.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
notice how in there generation of ambulances windows all you got was the red cross in a circle no lines.
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Haven't the slightest idea who built the body for this handsome ambulance but, the chassis appears to be that of a GMC.
any body get the taxidermist sign. funeral passing or leaving for such?
Young Kennedys prepare to leave the White House for John F. Kennedy's funeral, November 25, 1963.
LIFE magazine image that was not originally published.
LIFE magazine image that was not originally published.
St. John's Ambulance Service captured in 1920.
Stuart Thomson photographer and part of City of Vancouver Archives.
Beautiful leaded glass detail enlarged/enhanced:
Stuart Thomson photographer and part of City of Vancouver Archives.
Beautiful leaded glass detail enlarged/enhanced:
'37 Chrysler Imperial snapped in '43. Prewar sedambulance is earliest I've seen.
Jack Lindsay photographer and part of City of Vancouver Archives.
Jack Lindsay photographer and part of City of Vancouver Archives.
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
1920's stuff found in the Montreal Quebec archives and Quebec city (oldest city in north america) archives.
1920-something Notre-Dame ambulance on Sherbrooke street, Montreal, note the chains on the wheel commonly used in the province until the 60's.. so that mean I dont know how to install that thing haha
1920-something hearse from Germain Lépine, St-Roch Quebec city, the oldest funeral home of the province still in business today, since 1845.(now Lépine & Cloutier)
note the typical french canadian catholic cross on the top.
1920-something Notre-Dame ambulance on Sherbrooke street, Montreal, note the chains on the wheel commonly used in the province until the 60's.. so that mean I dont know how to install that thing haha
1920-something hearse from Germain Lépine, St-Roch Quebec city, the oldest funeral home of the province still in business today, since 1845.(now Lépine & Cloutier)
note the typical french canadian catholic cross on the top.
W.W. Chambers Co ambulance parked in front of funeral parlor located in NW Washington DC, circa 1927.
National Photo Co via LOC.
National Photo Co via LOC.
Retrieving casket @ railroad station in Shelbyville, IN dated 9/38.
John Vachon photographer.
John Vachon photographer.
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Atti.....that WW. Chambers ambulance is a Cunningham. Great photo. Thanks for posting it.
Tom Hoczyk
PCS Past President
Sir John Craig Eaton posing with ambulance he gave to Toronto General Hospital circa 1910. Note dual wheels.
City of Toronto Archives.
City of Toronto Archives.
Funeral of Major Rayner from the '40s.
Alexandra Studio photographer and part of City of Toronto Archives.
Alexandra Studio photographer and part of City of Toronto Archives.
Both of the following are marked Sir John Craig Eaton's funeral. The first from 1922 and the second from 1924. (Actually there are several images from each year. These are the only two with coaches in them.) Using two different hearses is weird enough but seeing as the second is a 3-way, it must be the error. 3-ways hadn't been invented yet. 
City of Toronto Archives.
City of Toronto Archives.