LONDON AMBULANCE HISTORIC COLLECTION
May 27, 2022
4 minutes
Words/Images: Patrick Boniface
ndy Whatling, Head of Historic Collections for London Ambulance Services points out that the collection is unique. “Our vehicles are considered too small for commercial vehicles and too large for car clubs.” The 30 vehicles held in the collection, however, span the entirety of the ambulance service in London from the late 1880s when if you were to fall ill on the streets of the capital it fell to the Police, firefighters or even passing taxi cabs to carry you off on a fleet of wheeled stretchers call ‘litters’ to doctors or an infirmary for treatment of sorts. It wasn’t until the dawn of the 20th century that something
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