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" Such vehicles may be hearses, flower cars, service cars, ambulances, limousines, or cars specially built to combine two or more of these different functions, such as combination hearse-ambulances, sedan ambulances or invalid coaches.

* Professionalcar. org An enthusiast community specializing in hearses, flower cars, car-based ambulances, combination cars, limousines and other livery vehicles.

Loudonville was the long-time ( 1913 – 96 ) home of The Flxible Company, a manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, commercial cars ( hearses, ambulances, and flower cars ), intercity coaches, and city-transit coaches.

Vehicles included buckboards and dead axle wagons, surplus Army ambulances, celerity ( or mud ) coaches, and the deluxe Concord.

The Flxible Co. ( originally the Flexible Sidecar Company ) was an American manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches and transit buses, based in the U. S. state of Ohio.

The Cadillac Commercial Chassis was basically a strengthened version of the long-wheelbase Cadillac Series 355 frame and the Series 75 was intended to carry the extra weight of the bodywork, rear deck and cargo area of funeral coaches and ambulances.

Wayne products eventually included school buses, transit buses, highway coaches, military and shuttle buses, ambulances and even huge bus bodies pulled by tractor trailers used to haul oil field workers in the Middle East.

The services that VCA provide include Type Approval testing and certification for all road-going vehicles, including cars, trucks, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles, buses and coaches, ambulances, fire engines and motor caravans, and replacement part systems and components.

Today, plant manufactures a line of 59 models of six-and eight-cylinder passenger motor cars, trucks, ambulances, and funeral coaches ".

Snowmobiles were used in rural Quebec to take children to school, carry freight, deliver mail, and as ambulances.

Jeeps were used for many purposes including cable laying, saw milling, as firefighting pumpers, field ambulances, tractors and, with suitable wheels, would even run on railway tracks.

The crash also showed that the track's distances were too long for regular fire engines and ambulances, even though the " ONS-Staffel " was equipped with a Porsche 911 rescue car, marked ( R ).

By that time, EMSA ambulances, police, and firefighters were already headed to the scene, having heard the blast.

In 2003, ambulances were diverted over a half a million times, not necessarily due to patients ' inability to pay.

Larrey was present at the battle of Spires, between the French and Prussians, and was distressed by the fact that wounded soldiers were not picked up by the numerous ambulances ( which Napoleon required to be stationed two and half miles back from the scene of battle ) until after hostilities had ceased, and set about developing a new ambulance system.

These ' flying ambulances ' were first used by Napoleon's Army of the Rhine is 1793.

Also in the late 19th century, the automobile was being developed, and in addition to horse-drawn models, early 20th century ambulances were powered by steam, gasoline, and electricity, reflecting the competing automotive technologies then in existence.

These first two automobile ambulances were electrically powered with 2 hp motors on the rear axle.

In many locations, however, ambulances were hearses-the only available vehicle that could carry a recumbent patient-and were thus frequently run by funeral homes.

While some areas ambulances were staffed by advanced first-aid-level responders, in other areas, it was common for the local undertaker, having the only transport in town in which one could lie down, to operate both the local furniture store ( where he would make coffins as a sideline ) and the local ambulance service.

Some fans tried to break through the cordon to ferry injured fans to waiting ambulances but were forcibly turned back.

In most cases these ambulances were operated by drivers and attendants with little or no medical training, and it was some time before formal training began to appear in some units.

Witnesses to the event claim that the bodies were first removed in ambulances and later military officials came and piled up bodies, not knowing if they were dead or alive, into the military trucks, while some say that the bodies were piled up on garbage trucks and sent to unknown destinations.

Hearses from Barnett ’ s and Porterfield-Minnick Funeral Homes were used when ambulances were unavailable.

Few ambulances were standing by and ordinary city buses were brought in.

Field hospitals were still called ambulances during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and in the Serbo-Turkish war of 1876 even though the wagons were first referred to as ambulances about 1854 during the Crimean War.

But so many other ambulances had arrived that a traffic jam developed, and some rigs were unable to leave the site immediately.

Because of its experience, the airport is able to quickly assemble firefighters, ambulances, police officers, and federal agents to meet such planes.

These hospitals operated from late 1861 until May 18, 1864, then ambulances moved patients south out of the path of the invading Federal forces.

Chrysler was prolific in its production of war materiel from 1942 to 1945, and Dodge in particular was well known to both average citizens and thankful soldiers for their tough military-spec truck models and ambulances like the WC54.

During the French Revolution, after seeing the speed with which the carriages of the French flying artillery maneuvered across the battlefields, French military surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey applied the idea of ambulances, or " flying carriages ", for rapid transport of wounded soldiers to a central place where medical care was more accessible and effective.

Larrey subsequently developed similar services for Napoleon's other armies, and adapted his ambulances to the conditions, including developing a litter which could be carried by a camel for a campaign in Egypt.

In civilian ambulances, a major advance was made ( which in future years would come to shape policy on hospitals and ambulances ) with the introduction of a transport carriage for cholera patients in London during 1832.

Two-way radios became available shortly after World War I, enabling for more efficient radio dispatch of ambulances in some areas.

Advances in the 1960s, especially the development of CPR and defibrillation as the standard form of care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, along with new pharmaceuticals, led to changes in the tasks of the ambulances.

There are charities who focus on providing ambulances for the community, or for cover at private events ( sports etc .).

These often focus on providing ambulances for the community, or for cover at private events, such as sports matches.

A second stage manufacturer, commonly known as a bodybuilder, will complete the vehicle for uses such as recreational vehicles, small school buses, minibuses, type III ambulances, and delivery trucks.

They have been sold as both cargo and passenger models to the general public and as cutaway van chassis versions for second stage manufacturers to make box vans, ambulances, campers and other vehicles.

After the war we retired to Wales ( I say we because my wife and I had driven ambulances and served in intelligence together ) where we lived for a while in a high Welsh-speaking valley ..." which confirms in first person at least the intelligence connection, as well as introducing his wife Mary ( Wicksteed ) Tolstoy as a co-worker and fellow intelligence operative.

The district maintains well-trained, professional, full-time firefighting crews at all three stations including paramedics for its ambulances.

The term also includes a large number of non-urgent ambulances which are for transport of patients without an urgent acute condition ( see functional types, below ) and a wide range of urgent and non-urgent vehicles including trucks, vans, bicycles, motorbikes, station wagons, buses, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, boats, and even hospital ships ( see vehicle types, also below ).

RAF vans and minibuses were used only by state enterprises, most often as ambulances and for public transit.

Such traffic light preemption is usually reserved for emergency vehicles such as fire apparatus, ambulances, and police squad cars, though sometimes mass transit vehicles including buses and light rail trains can interrupt lights.

He was a member of the National Fascist Party and commanded fascist troops under Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and is an alleged war criminal for the use of poison gas and systematically bombarding and strafing Red Cross hospitals and ambulances during the Ethiopia campaign.

Over time their general-purpose commercial use reduced to specialist roles, as platform trucks, forklift trucks, ambulances, tow tractors and urban delivery vehicles, such as the iconic British milk float ; for most of the 20th century, the UK was the world's largest user of electric road vehicles.