AIR AMBULANCE USED
AUTHOR AS PATIENT LONDON, Aug. 15. Britain's first air ambulance, Florence Nightingale, was used in a race against, time yesterday to take 30-year-okl Mr. 'Vincent Shcean, an American best-selling author, from Dublin, to see a Geneva specialist. Mr. Noel Brown, secretary for air to the' Red Cross, said: "Ml". Sheean is suffering from a serious nervous breakdown and he was accompanied in the airplane' by a doctor and a male nurse. He travelled on a stretcher." The machine landed at Heston to refuel and then raced on. It is equipped with oxygen tent and full medical and .surgical equipment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 2
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