Category: Ambulance

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.

A Volvo XC70 4x4 ambulance car.

This Honda ambulance car is from East Midlands Ambulance Service and is used as a response manager's car.

This Mercedes-Benz Vario 814D truck has been converted to an control unit for the Scottish Ambulance Service. It has a pull-out canopy to the side and blue, amber and green & white checker flashing lights on the roof to denote it's control status.

This is an 2003 Ford Mondeo estate ambulance car demonstrator.

The rear view of a Renault ambulance in EU regulation ambulance yellow (Euro Yellow RAL 1016). The bodywork is by MacNellie.

This is a British-built Honda CR-V rapid response ambulance car. The rear view, showing the spare wheel cover and high-visibility markings of this East Midlands vehicle.

This is part of an exercise in responding to casualties in the aftermath of a 'dirty bomb' attack. Personnel in protective suits and masks wash wounded casualties and transfer them from the 'dirty' end of the inflatable hospital to the 'clean' end via a rolling platform. The casualty is transferred to a clean spinal board and further treatment takes place. The inflatable building takes minutes to set up anywhere and is illuminated from outside via the translucent roof. The walking wounded and other contaminated persons go through a series of showers that are run in parallel to this facility.

This is a Scottish Ambulance Service VW LT46 TDi with bodywork by UV Modular.

This silver Vauxhall Astra paramedic car by MacNellie is equipped with an integrated computer. A screen is integrated into the centre console and any packages can be run on it. This demonstrator used to be liveried as a Metropolitan Police car.

This Jumbulance (multi-purpose jumbo ambulance) is a huge 2003 Mercedes Benz 814D truck. It is liveried in luminous-yellow Isle of Wight colours and has bodywork by WAS. We have been infomed that this ambulance has been of the road due to an accident where a 4x4 driver hit it. He told the police that he could not see it coming around a roundabout!

This yellow unmarked MG ZTT 190 is a demonstrator from Premier Hazard. It has a 2.5 litre engine and clear lenses on it's blue flashing lights behind the grille and on the roof.

This is a another VW LT46 turbo diesel but with bodywork by Proline.

This Iveco Daily (with a WAS body) is deployed as a Surrey Ambulance Service Incident Support Unit. Notice the huge communications antenna and floodlights sprouting from the roof of this 4 cylinder, 146 bhp, 6-speed Iveco.

This is a silver Honda Stream estate ambulance car.

This 2003 Iveco Daily ambulance has Wilker bodywork and is liveried in Royal Berkshire colours.

A look in the back of a WAS version of the Daily shows how a long ramp allows easy access for a laden stretcher.

An odd sight to end this section with: the back of an ambulance. This is an example of MacNellie's bodywork with a small black skirt around the base rather than mounting it onto a chassis.

This is one of a number of Ford Focus estates that the North East Ambulance Service use for rapid response work.

The ambulance shown is a British Red Cross (Lancashire Branch) UVG Premia bodied Ford Transit 2.5 Diesel. The livery is a mixture of ex-Mersey Regional Ambulance checker stripes with a full yellow & red body stripe and rear red stripe added to meet Red Cross standards. The "RED LANCS ONE" markings are the vehicle's radio callsign as recognised by the local ambulance service.

This is the Yorkshire Air Museum Ambulance Service's first ambulance, based on the Elvington site. This vehicle has now been decomissioned as YAMAS has folded.