BELLS ON AMBULANCES
REQUEST FOR WIDER USE | A request that drivers of St. John 1 ambulances should sound the bells with jg which the machines are equipped, in- p stead of using the electric horns also' ij fitted, has been received by the Am- i bulaiice Association from the City Traffic L Department. It was explained in the letter that || on several occasions recently traffic 1 officers on point duty had heard what 1 they imagined to be the distinctive 1 note of an ambulance horn, and had | held up long lines of traffic, only to. ?| find the supposed ambulance was » ij taxi-cab with a similar horn. Mr. S. E. Langstone, manager of the L St. John Ambulance in Auckland, said last evening that it was extremely dif- | ficult to secure electrically-operated | bells with a sufficiently loud peal * <S be useful in traffic. Excellent bells wer o i fitted to ono or two of the ambulances, | but no more were available. For that | reason electric horns with a distinctly and piercing note had been fitted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21480, 2 May 1933, Page 8
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175BELLS ON AMBULANCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21480, 2 May 1933, Page 8
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