I asked Demers if they had anything on their history and they sent me 14 pages of company history.
The first thing I noticed on the first page was a statement saying that "Demers is the oldest continous ambulance manufacturer in North America ???? really ?? and then then I saw a picture of a horse drawn hearse saying it was Demers 1st custom built buggy when in fact its a picture of a Crane & Breed hearse, the same picture thats in Tom's book "American Funeral Cars and Ambulances Since 1900".
Then in 1960 they say they started building car-based ambulances in a garage behind Demers Funeral Home !!
then in the 1970's according to their own history page they introduced their first ambulance built on a van chassis ( today called type ll ) but the picture they show is not a type ll but a Van conversion !! and started building ambulances to North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. By 1979 deliveries to the Middle east alone were more then 1,600 ambulances !
that goes to show some people just didn't care about quailty !
What I find interesting is that it was only in 2000 that Demers entered the U.S. market
All I'm saying here is that it makes you wonder about the things some companies will do to make themselfs sound good.
I think some people on here know more about the History of Demers then what Demers knows about thier own history ????