Author: UK Emergency Vehicles

This is a Honda TRX 450 quad bike intended to be used by paramedics in rough or inhospitable terrain. From this shot you can see the front mounted blue lights and the sump guard to protect the drive components. The rear shots show the additional rear blue lights. Equipment can be mounted on either the front or rear racks.

This Ford Transit Connect is used by Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service for maintenance of its fleet of vehicles. It is fitted with a set of orange lights.

This is a Ford Focus C-MAX demonstrator in ambulance yellow. This vehicle is highly visible with its additional blue lights on the front grill and bumper.

This is a silver Renault Clio rapid response car from Coventry & Warwickshire Ambulance Service.

A silver Land Rover Freelander paramedic demonstrator vehicle. The rear view, showing the lettering on the wind-down rear screen.

This is a yellow Mercedes Benz Vito ambulance with Profile bodywork. Notice the additional spot lights on the front grille, the repeater blue flashing lights on the wing mirrors, and the non-British colour scheme.

A close up look at a Renault Master ambulance belonging to St. John.

In the foreground is a Renault Scenic RX4 fast response vehicle from Loughborough Ambulance Station, with a traditional Renault emergency ambulance in the background.

This is a St. John Cambridgshire Nissan Patrol. Notice the height of the roof and the floodlight perched on the top. The rear view of the same car shows the rear doors and cubbyholes open for access to equipment. Also note how the lights are recessed into the bodywork.

This is a St. John Ford Transit Connect in standrad SJA livery.

A close up look at the tail lift of a McNellie Ford Transit. Look at the thought that has gone into it. When the rear door is swung up, duplicates of the exterior lights it covers are revealed and operated.

A TENYAS Mercedes minibus patient transportation ambulance.

This Ford Focus hatchback is a Ford demonstrator with livery by RVG.

A Volvo V50 ambulance rapid response demonstrator car.

This is an East Midlands Ambulance Service Toyota Rav4 paramedic 'response manager' car. The side view, with the rear door swung open.

This Vauxhall Zafira Club is liveried as an ambulance and is run by a private company, First Choice Ambulance Service, which are based in Bramley, Leeds. There is no company name or logo on this vehicle, just 'FCA' on the private registration plate and roof marking. The rear view showing the rest of the livery and the optional 'slow' sign on the rear of the roof bar.

Here is a side view of a WAS-bodied Mercedes Benz 416CDI. Notice the nearside and rear entrance doors, the stretcher lift and the equipment store.

This is a WYMAS intensive care ambulance. It is a Renault van with UVG bodywork.

This is a prototype mark-four Crusader ambulance designed specifically for St. John Ambulance. It is liveried as Felixstowe Division (Suffolk). Changes from the mark-three include brighter lightbars, optional amber airfield lights, fewer windows and lots of small internal improvements.

V277 FOR, HX51 VVY and V274 FOR Three examples of SJA North Yorkshire & Teesside Crusaders at the Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate.

This Ford Focus estate is used by Cumbria Ambulance to quickly respond to emergencies in the largely rural Cumbrian Lake District.

A Cumbria Ambulance Service Ford Transit emergency ambulance. The rear view of this 1997 example.

This Range Rover is in service with Severn Ambulance and Medical Services. It was previously used by Derbyshire Ambulance and later by various St John Ambulance divisions. The rear view, showing the modern livery on this 1982 vehicle. Here is the same vehicle when it was in use with Surrey St. John Ambulance.

This is a Ford Transit ambulance at Croft motor racing circuit. It has a mis-match livery, and an extra-high roofline courtesy of the the Customline bodywork.

This is a Mercedes Benz 3100 ambulance. It is liveried as St John Ambulance. Notice the large spotlights on the back and sides of the vehicle that are built into the bodywork.

This is the sister of the vehicle. There are subtle differences in the livery and this one is run by volunteers of the Norton Division of St John.

This Ford Transit is another St John Ambulance Brigade vehicle, liveried as belonging to Great Ayton. It has blue lights built into the sides, a combined blue light and siren unit on the roof and grille repeaters. The yellow stripe has somewhat faded on this example.

This is a largely unmarked Peugeot used for a volunteer paramedic to respond to emergencies in rural areas via an organisation called LIVES. They are based in Lincolnshire and are a 'basics scheme' with a number of doctors and paramedics responding in their own vehicles. This green Peugeot is fitted with blue grill lamps and a magnetic light bar and replaced a Ford Scorpio used for the same purpose.

This is a Ford Transit Lazer Ambulance. It has had a very varied life, working for Humberside Ambulance Service, Liberty Medical Service, St John Ambulance (in Magherafelt, Northen Ireland), on the Isle of Wight and for MedicPlus Ambulance & Medical Service.

This Vauxhall Zafira Club ambulance is owned and run by UK Event Medical Services Ltd. They provide pro-active ambulance personnel and equipment at large events. The vehicle is clear that this is a private ambulance as there is no ambulance service crest or 'NHS' logo in its livery, and the company name is written on the rear.

This is a private ambulance, previously used as a front line ambulance by North Yorkshire Ambulance Service. The rear and side view, showing another 'private' sign that has been added to the livery.

This is an ex-Ministry of Defence ambulance which is based at British Aerospace Filton, near Bristol. The rear view of the ambulance. It was made in 1990 and was re-liveried in 2003.

This is a London Ambulance Service LDV front-line ambulance.

The LDV above is joined by a newer LAS sister vehicle. The yellow 2003 Mercedes ambulance shows the revised livery for yellow LAS vehicles.

This is another LAS LDV ambulance. By 2000 the yellow stripe has been replaced by a double strip of battenburg marks.

This P registration Vauxhall Astra van is used by the training division of LAS.

Here are two shots of a rare 1972 Range Rover belonging to the Stratford-upon-Avon division of St. John Ambulance based in Warwickshire. This vehicle was a original prototype from Range Rover and has a higher than normal back. Only seven prototypes were made and there are only two left. The other one has been converted into a camper van.

Here is another of Stratford's ambulances: a Land Rover. The rear view, showing the double hinged doors conversion.

This is a Ford Transit-based ambulance run by Kent Ambulance NHS Trust. The bodywork is by Customline.

This photograph shows the front and nearside of a 4x4 Land Rover operated by Severn Ambulance & Medical Services, a small ambulance group that operate on the outskirts of Bristol & South Gloucestershire. Notice the additional amber flashing beacon for use on airfields.

This was one of three four-wheel-drive Chevrolet Suburban ambulances bought by Surrey Ambulance Service. The vehicles were based at the rural locations of Cranleigh, Haselmere and Godstone.

This is a GMC Chevrolet Suburban Silverado 'Wheeled Coach' Ambulance. It is being used by Norfolk Priority Care Medical Services for intensive care transfer work. Four shots of the vehicle are shown which is temporarily in the Surrey Ambulance livery - its previous owners.

This is a St. John 'Cobra' 4x4 response car, based on the Nissan Patrol. This is the first example of this type of emergency vehicle, belonging to the Halifax and Brighouse Division who use it as a first response vehicle as well as for kit carrying and towing.

This is a South Yorkshire Ambulance Service Volvo S40 rapid response car.

Also from South Yorks. is this Rover 200 rapid response car.

This is a Vauxhall Astra estate ambulance rapid response car from Manchester.

On the right is a 1983 Mercedes ambulance from the Ashbourne Division of Derbyshire St. John Ambulance. To its left is a vehicle 20 years younger: a 2003 £48,000 Renault Crusader which replaces the Merc.

This is a TENYAS Mercedes Sprinter ambulance with wrap-around green and yellow checker livery.