wally dugan Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 narrow gauge ambulance wagon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfire Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Actually, the dimensions, heavy padding and height above the ground leads me to believe that it may have mounted on the roof of a railcar or stage coach. Cheers, Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 The things around the edges appear to be padding that is pleated with buttons, like an old couch, viewed from a high angle (I'd say that they are on the walls of a box like structure and we are looking down upon it). What it is and what it was used for I have no idea. Cheers, Terry Yes Terry quite correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 narrow gauge ambulance wagon Wally very very close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 Actually, the dimensions, heavy padding and height above the ground leads me to believe that it may have mounted on the roof of a railcar or stage coach. Cheers, Terry Terry very very close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 standard railway gauge ambulance coach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 standard railway gauge ambulance coach Yes well done Wally It was the conversion of a second class passenger carriage for the transport of the sick & wounded on a British railway network. In addition there were specially constructed ambulance carriages, invalid carriages (I'm sorry if that is now considered a politically incorrect term but that is what they were called) and goods waggons. I have some details I'll post up that cover fitting the conversion into the railway carriage. Anyone got a date for this maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 CLIVE british rail was formed in 1948 but l know the military used ambulance coaches during ww2 ww1 so at a guess late 1800s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 CLIVE british rail was formed in 1948 but l know the military used ambulance coaches during ww2 ww1 so at a guesslate 1800s Yes Wally 1875. Although it does make reference to 'British railways' but only in the broadest sense not 'British Railways'. I think there were dozens of railway companies in that era, although we seem to have quite a few nowadays for better or worse.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605886/Poignant-archive-pictures-ambulance-trains-transported-soldiers-wounded-First-World-War-hospitals-Britain.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 Interesting link Tony, rather more sophisticated than the stretchers on planks of wood conversion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 If it gets you out to help, who cares? Though Great War Casevac could work suprisingly well. If the system was not oveeloaded it was reckoned an injured man could be away from the front and in a hospital in Britain in about 8 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wally dugan Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Only twice have l ever had any thing to do with military railway ambulances one a first world war narrow gauge which was rebuilt in the museum and now resides in Lincolnshire the second was a standard gauge ambulance coach sent to france with the BEF in 1939 captured by the germans and used by them until 1944 and then used by the british in Europe IN the i980s rescued by the artist David Shepherd and stored at LONG MARSTON no idea were it is now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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