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BJ03 CZT 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.
RO02 VBE 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.
RL02 VFT A side view of a 2002 Honda Pan European ST1300 in paramedic colours. Notice the small but important blue flashing repeater light that enables motorists with a side view of the bike to see it is on an emergency run.
The rear view of the same motorbike. Honda have installed a red matrix message sign to the rear which incorporates blue and red flashing lights. Also note the revised styling from the ST1100 model and four exhausts.
KE03 YHG 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.
NK03 GWM is one of a number of Ford Focus estates that the North East Ambulance Service use for rapid response work.
P58 GCM 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 a yellow Sussex Ambulance Honda Pan-European rapid response motorbike.
D918 FHP 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.
M403 RPY This TENYAS Ford Transit ambulance has a bad case of tin worm, but was still operational in 2003.
The rear view of this familiar-shaped vehicle. Close inspection of the writing on the sides shows that the word ‘Cleveland’ has been deleted from in front of ‘ambulance’, but not replaced by the new supertrust’s name, even though the merger happened in 1999!
F115 SWS is a Mercedes Benz Avon Ambulance Service Equipment Support Unit.
This is a re-liveried Fiat Ducatto from Advanced Medical Ambulance Service Limited.
The previous livery of the same vehicle.
This is a Volvo responder car from Advanced Medical Services for use at large events.
The rear view.
This is a Toyota Hi-Ace Power Van high dependency unit also owned by Advanced Medical Services. It is used for long distance patient transfers.
The rear view.
A215 MWY is a Landrover Series 3 being used by St John Ambulance in Sheffield. It was originally owned by WYMAS as a general runaround, recovery and back up communications unit. It was sold to SJA for £1.
YJ03 AUF This is a WAS-bodied Mercedes ambulance from TENYAS’s fleet. A large order of these vehicles was placed with WAS from a consortium of Northern-England ambulance services. They were delivered in 2003.
YD52 TWF The rear view of an identical 52-reg ambulance, with another in the background. TENYAS’s ambulances had problems when first delivered with a hydraulic lift they had fitted to the rear of the vehicle. It hung below the vehicle and caught on speed humps in trials.
W547 EAG This is a W-registration Ford Focus ambulance rapid response car from TENYAS.
W547 EAG This is a W-registration Ford Focus ambulance rapid response car from TENYAS.
N119 FVX This 1996 Chevrolet ambulance is owned by Event Fire and Medical Services.
W715 LWP A silver Vauxhall Vectra ambulance car from Cambridgeshire Ambulance Service.
The 2003 model Honda Pan European motorbike in paramedic colours.
SG52 UJF This picture is of a Ford Mondeo RRU at Coatbridge Ambulance Station, Scotland.
SF03 GXN is a Mercedes ambulance from the Scottish Ambulance Service’s Coatbridge ambulance station. Interestingly, Scotland is covered by one ambulance service, rather than having different services by county.
F954 EWX A St John Ambulance Renault Master First Aid Unit. This vehicle has now been decommissioned and sold.
P914 JKY A paramedic cycle alongside a Mercedes-Benz ambulance, with York Minster in the background.
A Volvo V90 ambulance owned and operated by a private ambulance company called Ambulance Direct (Yorkshire).