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Ambulance for 3 to 16 Cases
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DESIGNED to meet a wide range of requirements, a new ambulance for the Joint Committee of St. John and British Red Cross Society [Home Service Ambulance Department] can carry three wheel-chairs, four stretcher cases or 16 sitting cases, or any combination of the three. Based on an Austin longwheelbase 2-ton chassis, the body was built by Messrs. Pitchers, 314-320, Kingston Road, London, S.W.20.
Of composite construction, the body has pillars of amoora rohituka, a timber which the bodybuilders have found to be superior to many of the conventional timbers. The body is built out to the full legal width, and is equipped with convertible longitudinal bench seats along each side, and a single transverse seat behind the cab. The two side seats may be converted It, form double-tier stretcher carriers, capable of accepting any of the standard range of stretchers.
A new winding gear for lifting the upper stretchers has been developed by Messrs. Pitchers. Folding handles are located above the floor at the ends of the lockers beneath the side benches. These actuate worm gears and a threaded bar on which is mounted the upper stretcher carrier brackets. Low gearing enables one man to lift a heavy stretcher case to the upper position.
Ample interior headroom is a feature of the body, which has three large windows at each side, two of which are fitted with Moydon Staput drop glasses. Equipment lockers are located under the side benches, under the front transverse seatand in the roof of the cab, with access from inside the main body. Another locker is arranged in the skirt, with external access, and a full-width " tunnel " accessible from the near
side is provided for stowing folded stretchers.
Air intakes on each side of the illuminated ambulance sign above the windscreen lead to a Smith's heater under the floor of the cab, the heated air passing into the rear of the body through an outlet at floor level. The beater-fan control switch is inside the body, so that an attendant may modify the rate of incoming air.
A ramp is concealed under the floor and, when pulled out, enables the driver and attendant to push a wheel chair into the interior. In the case of a heavy motor-driven chair, use may be made of the winch mounted in the cab between the crew seats. With the side stretchers folded out of the way and the seat cushions removed, it should be
possible to carry at least three of the large type of wheel-chair. The winch is operated by a handle stowed under the attendants' seat. Two attendants may be carried, there being ample room in the cab for the crew of three.