Automobiles, Military; World War, 1914-1918 -- Transportation
A TYPE OF EXTEMPORISED MOTOR AMBULANCE FAVOURED BY THE FRENCH AND
BELGIANS.]
These notes will serve to give the necessary information to those who
may wish to equip motor ambulances for any kind of use during the
war, and there does not appear to be any need to go into details of
all the various other varieties of ambulance body, many of them very
beautifully fitted and designed, but also very expensive. One other
type may, however, be mentioned, since it is being employed extensively
by the French and Belgian Governments. This consists essentially of a
stout floor carrying two iron frameworks of inverted V shape. Between
these two and stretching fore and aft is an arrangement similar in
principle to a squirrel cage, or to a water-wheel with four floats. The
place of each float is taken by the necessary apparatus for the support
of a stretcher, provision being made that all the four stretchers
retain their horizontal position whatever the position of the framework
supporting them. The stretchers can be loaded in from the side to the
bottom position, and the apparatus swung round so that this operation
is continued, the stretchers after being loaded being subsequently
raised by the rotation of the frame. It is stated that in Antwerp and
elsewhere this type of ambulance has been used extensively, and is
found to be very comfortable and very easy to construct.
Turning to the work for which the ambulances are being employed, much
of this is of an obvious character. Ambulance services are evidently
needed both at the military hospitals, and also further back at the
big base hospitals of the Red Cross Society on the Continent. They are
wanted again at all the various hospitals in this country to which
wounded men are brought. They are employed, for example, in London, to
meet the hospital trains and carry from the stations those men who are
not able to be conveyed in ordinary cars.
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