Category: AMBULANCE

X449 GGO is a London Ambulance Service rapid response car. It has many unusual features such as the white paint work but with an ambulance yellow bonnet, side mounted blue repeaters and a light bar which does not damage the roof of the car.



The rear view of this car. This is a high specification petrol model, and unusually for a emergency vehicle, has attractive alloy wheels.

W634 XTP is a minimally marked Renault Master ambulance photographed in central London. Until August 2004 it was used by ‘All Wales Ambulance Services Limited’ based in Cwmbran in South Wales. It started life by being converted by Oughtred and Harrison, Yorkshire.

KE03 YGY is an Iveco based ambulance outside Great Ormond Street Hospital. Although this vehicle is equipped with battenburg markings, it is part of a varied fleet operated by ‘Medical Services’ which is a subsidiary company of the courier firm Lewis Day in London.

M507 USC is a rather tired looking Ford Transit that was operated by the private Thames Ambulance Service until January 2005.

BU04 HVD is a specially equipped children’s intensive care ambulance. Its is operated along with its sister vehicles HVE and HVF by the St John’s Ambulance service for the Childrens’ Acute Transfer Service (NHS). This vehicle is based at GOSH and covers the North Thames and Anglia areas. The two sister vehicles are based at Guy’s Hospital for the South Thames area.

A16 HAA is a specially modified American Ford van used by the private Heathrow Air Ambulance company.



The rear view showing the vehicles unique livery. This vehicle has the call sign of ‘Medic 4’.

S743 RKU In this busy picture, a WYMAS Mercedes Ambulance attends a RTA in Leeds. Fortunately, both the driver and passenger of the car escaped serious injury.

YX03 KND is a WYMAS Volvo V40 attending the same RTA. Notice how part of the battenburg high visibility yellow is missing from the drivers door.

HX53 BHN This Welsh Mercedes ambulance is seen here in Birmingham on a patient transfer. Notice the Welsh wording on the blue light bar and the siren mounted above the front registration plate.



On the nearside we can see that the vehicle carries the Welsh “Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru”, which is translated on the offside as “Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust”.

AY51 WOR This Mercedes ambulance is with East Anglian Ambulance Service. It is unmissable, with full sides of battenburg, reflective chevron markings on the rear, and a yellow cab.



The rear view. Look how the rear light bar contains blue for emergency use, amber for repeater indicators, white for illumination or reversing and red for braking or emergency use.

AU04 JJZ This Honda CRV is a silver with battenburg markings car used by the East Anglian ambulance service.



The rear view.

T395 PBL This Ford Mondeo is a ‘Hospital Rapid Response Unit’. Seen in the South Yorkshire area, it does not carry any county wording or ingignia.

YU52 YPG is a South Yorkshire Volvo V70.

S651 KNK This Iveco Turbo Daily is with Humberside’s St. John Ambulance. Inset: rear view.

P214 SHP A Ford Transit ambulance from Inter-County Paramedics.

This Suzuki Vitara is used by the British Red Cross. Notice the blue light on the roof, and the blue cable hanging from it (connected to the 12 volt power supply).

L166 JDC This aged Peugeot started off as a rapid response car with Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYAS). After 2001 it was commissioned to be a TENYAS Logistics vehicle, as the livery shows.

H638 YGN and GX51 XYE, A British Red Cross medical unit Mercedes truck preceded by a Red Cross LDV emergency ambulance. Both vehicles are based in London, and the LDV is almost identical to its London Ambulance Service cousins. The LDV also seems to be missing a blue light from it’s grille.

63135 This Guernsey Ambulance & Rescue Service ambulance is an Isuzu Trooper. Notice the entirely numerical registration.

R852 YWB is a LDV ambulance used by South Yorkshire Ambulance Service for training transportation. Despite being made in 1997, this R-reg vehicle looks dated in livery and shape, and is an unusual choice for an emergency ambulance.

It is one of a batch of four that were for each of the four main towns in South Yorkshire. They were supposed to be front-line fast response vehicles with patient transport capabilities. Among the inadequacies that caused them to be abandoned was poor performance. This was unsuccessfully addressed by fitting turbos at great expense! The other three vehicles were sold or written off not long after their introduction.

NX51 XFW This Vauxhall Astra estate transports the equipment and mechanics needed to keep North Yorkshire’s ambulances on the road.

YC52 HAX This black Land Rover Discovery belongs to a private ambulance company. It has a minimal livery and clear lenses on all of its blue lights.



The rear view. Notice the compact blue LED lights mounted on top of the bumper.

YD04 MTV is a 2.5TD 4×4 Ford Ranger-based incident support unit, built by Ferno International Rescue Equipment. It is liveried as belonging to West Midlands Ambulance Service. Notice the winch on the front bumper.



The rear aspect. The rear can be switched between a major incident support, a hazmat incident support, a comms or an ambulance incident support pod. Or it can be used just as a pick up truck with no pod!

YH03 DUC This is an older example of the above vehicle (without the front winch).

LJ03 KPV This yellow Mercedes Benz Sprinter ambulance, with bodywork by UV Modular, is part of London’s fleet.

YO04 JWD Another Mercedes Sprinter is liveried with a band of green checks here on a Royal Air Force ambulance.



The rear view showing the drop-down beaver tail stretcher lift.

RN03 UUC This Mercedes Sprinter 416 CDI is with Surrey Ambulance.



The view of the high visibility livery on the back

HX53 ARF This is a battenburg-marked Honda ST1300, used by Hampshire Ambulance Service to quickly respond to emergency medical calls in Portsmouth.