• FOR TWO FORMS OF SERVICE.
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A Studebaker Product which can be Used as a Pallbearers' Car or as an Emergency Car.
MEE utility of any type of vehicle which is designed for two or more uses centres around the ease with Which it can be eimverted from one guise to another and thus adapted to fulfil different requirements If considerable time be needed to carry out the changeover the task becomes wearisome and is often only carried out when the vehicle is to be used in its secondary sphere for some length of time.
This factor of time becomes of the utmost importance in the case of a vehicle which is built to undertake important public service,s, either as a regular duty or in emergency. It applies, therefore, in the case of the new combination vehicle which has just been introduced by Studebaker of Great Britain, Ltd., Pound Lane, London,
• N.W.10, for this is designed for use as an ambulance or as a pallbearers' car. The outstanding merit of the vehicle is that it can be transformed for one service or the other in less than a couple of minutes. The basis of the ear is the well-known Studebaker Big Six chassis and, ingeneral appearance, it resembles the makers' seven-seater sedan.
hold it in position at the top and the bottom. Although it is a .separate member from the main body framework, which, by the way, is constructed of white ash and maple, this pillar is of stout proportions and serves to stiffen the structure and give support to the roof.
The, car is then ready to receive a Bonigardner folding cot, which is supplied as standard equipment. The type of cot used is shown in one of our illus trations. It will be seen that it has adjustable tail and head pieces, as well as side supports. it is well sprung and
strongly made. be framework consists of tubular sections, and those which carry the. lifting bandies at the head telescope into the Aide members. Another of our pictures clearly shows the position of the cot and the centre
body pillar being replaced., The verse procedure is, of course, adopted when it is desired to transform the car to its original form.
The Studebaker Big Six chassis is well known in, the private-ear world and embodies in its design many features Which are reflective of modern automobile progress. The six-cylinder engine, which is of the L-headed pattern, has a bore of 3 ins.. and a stroke of 5 ins. The dry-plate clutch and ,three-speed gearbox form a unit with the engine and through them the drive is conveyed to a semi-floating spiral-bevel type rear axle witli-Eotchkiss drive.
combination ambulance-pall-hearer' car is equipped with' hydraulic brakes' oh all Wheels and bumpers fore and aft: so that. it 'can.. maintain good. speeds. with perfect safety, an absolute necessity for 'ambulance and similar work.