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HILO said:Apollo Ambulance Service. I remember those Caravanbulances in Irving when I was a pup. There was even a topic about them here years ago.
Found a picture!
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wow thats different
HILO said:Apollo Ambulance Service. I remember those Caravanbulances in Irving when I was a pup. There was even a topic about them here years ago.
Found a picture!
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chrismartin1701 said:wow thats different
HILO said:Apollo Ambulance Service. I remember those Caravanbulances in Irving when I was a pup. There was even a topic about them here years ago.
Found a picture!
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Firefly Berlin said:Gentleman, I present to you: the Ford Transit BLS Vanbulance... :duh: :dielaugh: :crazy:
Skip Goulet said:Thanks for the pic. Where did that picture come from?
Skip Goulet said:Wow! That's nice. Is that a European-built Ford?
Skip Goulet said:For several months I've seen Nissan's NV vans running around with most of them belonging to oilfield-related companies. And in the back of my mind I've been thinking that they'd make a neat ambulance if they had the proper headroom
Well, someon's gone and done it. A new company called Triton EMT (Emergency Medical Transport) as introduced a new Type II amblance on the Nissan NV chassis.
I don't have any way of uploading the brochure I got, but you can go to Home to view pictures of this new ambulance. This co. is Priority Emergency Vehicles, and they're located in Texas. They deal primarily in Wheeled Coach and Braun, so this appears to be a new line for them.
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Tristar said:I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this or not, but I felt I had to post it. Check out link to the CL ad - it's without a doubt the strangest Cadillac ambulance I've ever seen!!!
cadillac 1958 patty wagon
Looks like they missed the front. Did they label the back, too, or just the sides?SomeBloke said:
irsa76 said:
Officially it was a support unit, not sure what that meant as I've seen it running code and at incidents, first response type. At least it had a decent flash pattern with the lights, the main Ambos have a stupid light pattern with steady reds all round the vehicle.
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Apparently it's a first response Paramedic unit for major events in Sydney.
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A cut and shut Holden Commodore ute with a gutless 3800 V6. Massive problems when new, and no warranty at all. I've seen a few that started rusting where they welded the stretch after a very short time, >12 months in 1 case. One of the shortest life spans for an Ambulance in Australia apparently, was told most were retired, some scrapped, after 2 years.
Save a penny, cost a dollar. NSW Ambulance service, and VW Australia, really screwed this up. NSW Ambulance ordered several hundred T4 Transporter LWB TDI but only ordered the standard civilian version. Result was constant transmission failures, same issue also effected V6 powered Eurovans which used the same transmission. At the time I worked for a VW dealer so I was heavily involved in this, at one point we had 6 vans in with failed transmissions. We, the dealer, discovered a special severe service transmission intended for police and ambulance use which was used as the service replacement from then on. Amusingly I had worked for a Mercedes dealer a few years earlier when they were having issues with the Sprinters, again regular civilian spec vans used instead of the factory severe service vans.
Arguably the worst ambulance in Australia, originally intended as a general emergency ambulance, they were quickly down graded to little more then patient transport vehicles, or support roles. Way too small and fragile, many stories of them having transmissions removed by jumping over median strips!
August Arborists said:I really like the rounded milk truck looking ones, they're almost art-deco. Are those Beacon Rays on all the busses? The step vans have a taller skirt, but it looks like the milk trucks had them cut to match the contour of the bus. I also love the mechanical sirens, are they Qs? Skip, I'm betting you'll know.
And just to be an ELB hard butt: Geez, hadn't those guys heard of intersection warning and scene lighting? The beacon being right at the front of the ambo is no excuse, they're too high! Those little blinkers on the hood don't count, a guy sitting on the PB holding a Zippo would provide about the same output.
It's either a noise ordnance or just isn't spec'd on the bids for the Q siren on fire apparatus in the city, the newer rigs do have the electronic Q. Most companies install their own mechanical siren on the apparatus and you will see a lot of them in pictures. But, they have to remove them whenever they go to the shops because the will be confiscated by the mechanics.Skip Goulet said:You'd think that as big as NYC is they could afford to run the Qs; but a friend of mine who had worked on an FDNY ambulance said that New York City is just plain cheap. I had a nice book on American-LaFrance firetrucks sometime back, and it surprised me how many of the FDNY trucks had the Model 28s instead of Qs.
lafd55 said:It's either a noise ordnance or just isn't spec'd on the bids for the Q siren on fire apparatus in the city, the newer rigs do have the electronic Q. Most companies install their own mechanical siren on the apparatus and you will see a lot of them in pictures. But, they have to remove them whenever they go to the shops because the will be confiscated by the mechanics.
Skip Goulet said:Why would FDNY mechanics confiscate sirens mounted on the trucks by each fire company if that was accepted procedure? Oh well, that's NYC for you.
Because they are not allowed to modify the fire apparatus and that would be a modification. It's accepted by the firefighters but it's far from procedure. I am guessing because the some(if not most) firefighters in the city are also vollies, so maybe that's where their love of the Q comes from.Skip Goulet said:Why would FDNY mechanics confiscate sirens mounted on the trucks by each fire company if that was accepted procedure? Oh well, that's NYC for you.
Tristar said:IF I understand it correctly, FDNY companies are not allowed to have mechanical sirens, even if they pay for them out of pocket. I believe it's due to noise issues.
Tristar said:IF I understand it correctly, FDNY companies are not allowed to have mechanical sirens, even if they pay for them out of pocket. I believe it's due to noise issues.
jph2 said:Looks like they missed the front. Did they label the back, too, or just the sides?
Phillyrube said:The fire company I was a junior member of had a donated Volkswagon ambulance. Our old firehouse was single bay, double wide, and very deep. On one side were the Oldsmobile ambulance, and 2 mack C95 engines (the twins) but they were really a year apart. The other side had a Dodge/Hahn engine, and a Maxim ladder truck. The Volkswagon was staged sideways, under the ladder. The 2 Macks had to pull out to get the VW out. We had a fire one day and the last out Mack was 10-7. One of the older members came in, threw a bucket of soapy water on the floor under the wheels, and we pushed the VW sideways so it could be driven out! Amazing to see the ambulance in these links. The only thing missing are the Federal Model 17 Beacon Ray on the roof and the chrome Federal Model 66 that was mounted on a bracket right in front of the nose VW emblem.
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
lotsofbars said:They're not, but the rule is becoming less enforced as more and more companies say "screw it" and mount a Q, 28, or Super Chief to their front bumper because everyone knows it sounds better and the eQ's sound more like loud dying ducks half the time than an actual Q.
Tristar said:IF I understand it correctly, FDNY companies are not allowed to have mechanical sirens, even if they pay for them out of pocket. I believe it's due to noise issues.
Firefly Berlin said:IIRC FDNY Rescue 1 currently has a Super Chief on their newest rig.
Phillyrube said:The fire company I was a junior member of had a donated Volkswagon ambulance. Our old firehouse was single bay, double wide, and very deep. On one side were the Oldsmobile ambulance, and 2 mack C95 engines (the twins) but they were really a year apart. The other side had a Dodge/Hahn engine, and a Maxim ladder truck. The Volkswagon was staged sideways, under the ladder. The 2 Macks had to pull out to get the VW out. We had a fire one day and the last out Mack was 10-7. One of the older members came in, threw a bucket of soapy water on the floor under the wheels, and we pushed the VW sideways so it could be driven out! Amazing to see the ambulance in these links. The only thing missing are the Federal Model 17 Beacon Ray on the roof and the chrome Federal Model 66 that was mounted on a bracket right in front of the nose VW emblem.
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
VW Bully Ambulance | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Skip Goulet said:Have you got any pictures of the truck?