BUILT AN AMBULANCE
WOMEN IN NEW SOUTH WALES OLD CAR CONVERTED FOR £6 Working at week-ends, with the assistance of a Technical College instructor, eight Woolahra (New South Wales) women have converted a car into a sturdy ambulance for the sum of £6. Under the supervision of Mr E. Beaton, instructor at the Technical College, who gave up his Saturday
| afternoon leisure to help the women, the job was completed in about six weeks. Not only did they convert the body but they stripped the engine, fitted new gaskets, and re-< wired it. Four new tyres were presented with the car. "We discovered that the vacuum tank had died of old age. We found another in a junk yard, and. got it as a gift," Mrs N. N'. Smith, superintendent said. "The duco-spraying was nearly our Waterloo; we had more duco on us than on the can" They spraj T ed it with white ena-< mel so that it would be easily seen in the blackout.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 8
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166BUILT AN AMBULANCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 8
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