WWII Ambulance
- Thread starter Steve Lichtman
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ww 2 chevys
seen one a elington field back in the 60's. they converted it to carry crews to planes. it was a studebaker but the same box. always wondered because of the tunnel ligts. i asked the maitenance sgt. because i couldnt beleive it was bought for a crew truck. he told me it was from ww2 and they had built 2 benche inside to carry a crew but it started as a ambulance.
seen one a elington field back in the 60's. they converted it to carry crews to planes. it was a studebaker but the same box. always wondered because of the tunnel ligts. i asked the maitenance sgt. because i couldnt beleive it was bought for a crew truck. he told me it was from ww2 and they had built 2 benche inside to carry a crew but it started as a ambulance.
the nice part about a ready built box is you can mount it one any chassis that will carry the weight.
The cross window looks the same. I like the ax holder and the fender mount extinguisher!
Very cool.. would be and easy model build also....
Dave Lisiecki
PCS Member
Here's a similar one just barely in this photo on shorpy.com
http://www.shorpy.com/node/12502
(Probably the same as the one on the emsmuseum.org website?)
http://www.shorpy.com/node/12502
(Probably the same as the one on the emsmuseum.org website?)
Very cool. Here's a blow-up of the ambulance in the photo, it's in the corner of a picture of a WWII parade (click Dave's link for the whole photo, it's a great scene). It's a Henney Packard.
I love that the three members of the ambulance crew - driver, nurse, intern - are the only ones in the photo looking up at the photographer, who is probably standing on the ledge of a building. The look on their faces says, "What the heck is he doing up there?"
I love that the three members of the ambulance crew - driver, nurse, intern - are the only ones in the photo looking up at the photographer, who is probably standing on the ledge of a building. The look on their faces says, "What the heck is he doing up there?"
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Kevin Lynch
PCS Member
The bells the bells ! ! ! !
I love the bell....
I love the bell....
Ted Kalinowski
PCS Member
Steve
By any chance you might or any one else have pictures of Henney Packard with this type of boxes as Chris has said this would be an excellent subject to model. Hopefully there are rear pictures of Henney Packard boxes.
By any chance you might or any one else have pictures of Henney Packard with this type of boxes as Chris has said this would be an excellent subject to model. Hopefully there are rear pictures of Henney Packard boxes.