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c1885 Canadian Horse-Drawn
Ambulance
Why was it painted black like a
hearse? Plainly, after a long, slow
ride, things could go either way.

AN IRONIC LOOK BACK AT THE WORLD’S
Ambulances 1914 City Ambulance

This crew looks like it was sent
out for a typhoid epidemic, but is
These days, you always pull over to let a afraid to get out of the ambulance.
speeding ambulance go by. But in times
past, you might be sitting at the curb for a
while, waiting for some of these old rigs to
plod past on their way to the infirmary.

c1939 City Ambulance
Who knows whether it was
fast or reliable, because in
the art deco era, c1928 French Motorcycle
of course, it Sidecar Ambulance
was all about With no suspension and cobble-
elegant design.
stone streets, patients arrived
sicker than when they left.
1917 WWI Army
Bicycle Ambulance
Hope the wounded A CLASSIC: 1964 Cadillac
S&S Ambulance
soldier isn’t in too The only icon of mid-century
much of a hurry, and vehicle design that no one
the field hospital necessarily
isn’t on a hill.
wanted to
ride in.

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