West Coast Hospital Ambulance.

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DescriptionRob Lunn
I believe that this was a Greymouth unit that was transferring a seriously injured person from the Reefton area to Grey Hospital and the the very experienced driver at the time didn’t get it quite right at Kamaka and ploughed into the concrete abutment of a bridge there. The ambulance was badly damaged with the V8 engine taking the brunt of the impact I responded to this accident as a very young fire fighter about 1978,79 thankfully the army were in the area and got there first and took all the injured to hospital in one of their RL Bedford trucks to this day I have never seen so much claret in one small areaDate of Photoca,1978ContributorJeffsplace Granity

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Date Created9th November 2021CommentsSharyn Kevin Ratcliffe
hope someone has some info

Malcolm Yorston
Looks like the old International they had at Grey Hospital in the 1970s

Jeffsplace Granity
My local 'group' tell me that this was the Buller Hospital ambulance, it was a Dodge ?

Jeffsplace Granity
The Buller District Hospital Board became the WCDHB in 1969 ?

Jeffsplace Granity
This pic was taken in an abandoned car yard in Chch many floods ago.

Annie Swain
No wheels so maybe body only? The yard has been cleared and it will be long gone now.

Hugh Scofield
It was an International D200 V8 with a Midland body. Originally new to St John's Christchurch , then to the WCHB. Its sister still survives in a barn in North Canterbury.

Rob Lunn
At the risk of being shot down by a more learned person as often happens to me in these forums I believe that this was a Greymouth unit that was transferring a seriously injured person from the Reefton area to Grey Hospital and the the very experienced driver at the time didn’t get it quite right at Kamaka and ploughed into the concrete abutment of a bridge there. The ambulance was badly damaged with the V8 engine taking the brunt of the impact I responded to this accident as a very young fire fighter about 1978,79 thankfully the army were in the area and got there first and took all the injured to hospital in one of their RL Bedford trucks to this day I have never seen so much claret in one small area

Anne Hines
Rob Lunn I’m thinking you got that right….my late mum was on call for theatre

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