SOUVENIR AMBULANCE
NEW ZEALANDER'S BED ACQUISITION JN DESERT (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service) ' ' CAIRO, June 30 ; Driving a tractor on road improvement work in the desert recently wai a New Zealander who had acquired ail abandoned Italian ambulance which he was using as his sleeping quarters. For strategical reasons an order was received to move hack quickly and begin work elsewhere. The New Zealander was determined not to leave his precious discovery behind, and set off on. his tractor with the ambulance in tow. For miles this queer combination travelled at a snail's pace, hut at last lie arrived safely with his travelling bed, Another New Zealander, a sapper," was making a lorry out of odds and ends from vehicles which had been left on the wayside as being of no further use. He also was among those who received the order to move and, like the tractor driver, he attached his nearly completed truck to the powergrader he was driving and took it away with him to finish at a later date.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24030, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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172SOUVENIR AMBULANCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24030, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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