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[victor 101]

Sorry about the quality of the image, it was a photo in a cabinet at a local hospital, and taken on a phone, it shows an Austin ambulance bought new by them in 1934[img][/img]

[buzzy bee]

Hi

Which hospital is that?

Wish our local hospitals had displays like that!

Cheers

Dave

[victor 101]

Hi Dave, This photo was on display with other artifacts from Castle Hill hospital in Cottingham, Hull. an isolation hospital in large grounds, apart from the old building behind the ambulance which is still used it has been transformed into a well laid out modern hospital which is a credit to the NHS.

[Jim.Walker]

The ambulance looks like an Austin to me. In my younger years I remember a private ambulance very similar operated by my family's business in pre-National Health Service days. In fact there was a new ambulance on order. The newly established National Health Service took over the new vehicle undelivered to us to be part of their initial fleet. The old ambulance was sold on to a Mr. Geoffrey Pheasant to be converted into a mobile caravan. I never heard of it again. It seemed fairly clear that the days of privately operated ambulances were doomed. Looking around now perhaps we should have mothballed it for 60 years!
I passed a load of photos of the family's vehicles over to Rick. Only now have I remembered that vehicle as a result of this post. Unfortunately if any photo was ever taken it has not survived.

By the way - the last surviving vehicle of the old firm that I am aware of (because I still own it) appeared Thursday night and last night as fleeting glimpses in the Darling Buds of May on ITV3. Dropping off Catherine Zeta Jones and Pam Ferris at a "London" Hotel (which was actually in Leeds), and picking up another actress from the same hotel in the next episode.
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