L944 KWC A Norfolk Priority Care 1994 ambulance based on a Ford Transit. This vehicle was originally with Essex Ambulance Service.
The rear view, showing the livery that you cannot fail to miss!
P817 OGV A mark I Ford Mondeo ambulance car. This vehicle can be deployed completely unmarked, or can carry magnetic livery and a roof bar of lights if required. It has blue and red flashing lights on the rear parcel shelf and a matrix sign. It is also with Norfolk Priority Care.
H836 PHK Another Norfolk Priority Care ambulance, this time based on the older 1990 Ford Transit. This vehicle was originally with the Royal Air Force.
Here are two pictures of the same vehicle two years apart. This Fiat Ducatto ambulance was originally owned by Staffordshire Ambulance Service and was vehicle number 380. The vehicle had some frontal damage and was sold to Norfolk Priority Care which they repaired (hence no wipers on the headlights). They decided to keep Staffordshire’s 380 number on it and added some of their own livery.
R213 DWX A Citroen Xsara (pictured below) rapid response ambulance car escorting an ambulance to an emergency. Both vehicle drove onto the pavement to pass bollards in the road.
A few seconds later, both vehicles are on scene. The rear-facing red lights on the roof bar can be seen, as well as the blue and red repeater lights mounted inside the rear screen.
Y726 EEB A Ford Focus paramedic rapid response car. This vehicle is a demonstrator vehicle provided by Ford. It does not have any unique county livery as it is passed around ambulance services for evaluation. Each county keeps it for a few weeks and Ford hopefully gets orders for them.
The rear view. These pictures were taken inside York’s ambulance station.
Y726 EEB A Ford Focus paramedic rapid response car. This vehicle is a demonstrator vehicle provided by Ford. It does not have any unique county livery as it is passed around ambulance services for evaluation. Each county keeps it for a few weeks and Ford hopefully gets orders for them.
A re-liveried TENYAS ambulance.
An army Landrover (with blue light fitted) at an accident and emergency department.
D213 EWX A Citroen Xsara diesel rapid response car. The blue bar of lights are temporarily attached by using roof-rack mounts.
The rear view. Notice the green diamond sticker warning that the vehicle carried compressed gas.
S114 SKM This medical car is a Ford Mondeo estate which carries oxygen, a defibrillator and trauma equipment. It is used for long distance transfers, medical standby duties at events and for conveying medical teams, organs or blood.
A side view
The rear view
K260 HYA This is a 4 wheel drive off road support unit which attends events such as rally races, equestrian meetings and other rough terrain activities. An easy load trolley bed is fitted along with oxygen, suction, entonox and trauma equipment.
A side view
The photographs of the Vauxhall Frontera and Ford Mondeo above are reproduced with kind permission of County Ambulance Services.
G705 NUG A 1989/90 Renault incubator unit ambulance. This vehicle is soon to be replaced (2001).
V274 FOR The St John Ambulance Crusader 900. Billed as ‘the variable purpose vehicle for the 21st century’ this £40,000 vehicle has been purpose built for the St John’s and is standard throughout the country.
[Rear View] This vehicle is specially designed to adapt from one role to another. It can be a mobile first aid unit, and accident and emergency vehicle, a special baby care unit, a mobile care unit and a community transport vehicle.
L166 JDC A 1993 Peugeot estate ambulance car.
K632 RKH An aged Humberside ambulance incident support vehicle.
A Volvo ambulance car belonging to a private company.
T552 KTW This is a Skoda Octavia “Zeus” Cardiac Fast Response vehicle from Norfolk Priority Care.
Y308 RRA is a luminous yellow Mercedes ambulance which is used in the rural areas around Wooler, Northumberland.
The same vehicle with a regular NEAS Cheverolet ambulance.
Here we have a Chevrolet ambulance from the East Anglican fleet. N127 FVX has a 6.2 litre diesel engine and is pictured here outside the James Pagent Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department, Gorleston, Norfolk.
Here we have two photos of M420 SFS, a Scottish ambulance Service Ford Transit.
The rear view
H229 AHS is an Emergency Support Unit based in Aberdeen. It is used during major incidents and holds a large number of fold up stretchers.
S57 ACP is a WYMAS Clinical Support Unit ambulance. This Vauxhall Frontera 4×4 was spotted in Leeds.
L908 GVN is a 1993 Talbot ambulance from TENYAS’s fleet.
M112 GAG is a Ford Transit from WYMAS. Notice the bonnet is a different colour to the rest of the bodywork and the location of lights and the siren.
P872 LWC is a NEAS Cheverolet on a blue light run in Gateshead.
The above ambulance is now parked behind a rapid response (unmarked) Ford Focus. Rapid response cars are being used increasingly in the NEAS area to cut down response times to meet Government standards.
NT 27 AA is an Territorial Army Ambulance. Notice the location of the siren and the somewhat contradictory camouflage colour with large red cross.
Here is a St. John Ambulance emergency shelter. It is collapsible and can be deployed anywhere that it is needed.
R360 ONL is a Nissan Primera. It has a 2.0 litre engine and is used as a quick response unit. Nissan used this car as a trial for new electronic equipment. A representative would come out periodically and remove the ash tray to reveal a data port. They would connect a laptop computer to download how many times and for how long each gear had been used for. It was intended that the car would cover 100,000 miles in 18 months, which is near impossible as it started its life doing short patient transportation duties before it was converted to quick response! Incidentally, the electronic gear watching equipment made the car no different to drive to any other.
The side view of the Nissan test car.
A Chevrolet ambulance. The chassis has been adapted to cope with winding British roads instead of the traditionally straight American ones.
P294 JNE is a Mercedes Sprinter based ambulance.