UP-TO-DATE AMBULANCE.
V'.';': '.-' ; :' H '■'l'^'";cli>lM6liurohi- :! ' .The • npiy.,■' ambulance,- ordered "by.)..the >. St.' •John Ambulance/; Association, .whichV'ajcriyed" a• fei\( ;days [ ago'/'represent?; tJio"very -latest' thing j' in;. ambulance construction;' ;: --'lt; is X ?.*'gßllopiiig' * : .ambulance,,, so, constructed/ that: 'it will be' ■able ■to 'travel at any. pace withe-Hit : inconveniencing' the occupants...The wheels' aro 4 . rubber-tyred, and generously .fitted v. with ■ springs.;. Rubber cushioning .has:/beeh •■■ used liberally wherever there was a .possibility of •a ; .iar. : boing ; causcd 'by.-fastL travel!ingj!:and some; very■ ingpnidus ..'■.'devices v.;.have.;.;beto adopted to'ensure. rlifted; 1 into'the'; ambulance with: a', minimum; of .-handling. .(Thoro-is; room,; inside for; tw-b attendants/dr medical'men,-and.a.very;com-plote'equipmcht of splints,, hot .water bottles,; bandagesi etc., is provided. : The' ambulance is'; lighted inside and .outside: : , with ■lamps' charged, from' independent, aCcumula- I ■tors, and, tli'ere :afe also. emergency; dandle lights.' ;Tho,; ventilation'is •;vcry,.thoroughv .The,'total, cost:of. ,; the, ambulance;will .prab'ably':bovabout £220.' .The local; cbmmitteo ..Vere. yory much 'indbbtocT.to-.'Mr; : JohnLbnsdaloj'.'of Wellington', .the.;New. : Zealand; agent for:the. raakers,; foj' the'trouble he'jtbok ;in connection ■ With the;execution :of : the; order.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 9
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161UP-TO-DATE AMBULANCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 429, 11 February 1909, Page 9
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