Thread: Wide body 109

Hello Isuzutoo-eh ,

I might have found it "Land-Rover Series IIA Ambulance. The Ambulance body is by Herbert Lomas who built ambulance bodies on a variety of vehicles". The quote is from this site Accessed March 28th 2016

https://www.google.com.au/url'sa=i&r...59225917865522

Another photograph of the side view - https://www.flickr.com/photos/homer-...son/4439275270

If you scroll down this site at the bottom there is a photograph of a Lomas Series III ambulance - perhaps the one you looked at is a intermediate model between the earlier 2A? Accessed March 28th 2016 from, Lomas Ambulances

Kind Regards
Lionel

What an interesting find.

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

My fiance reckons it won't fit in my backyard

I reckon she's wrong.

Lionel, I think you are wrong. The Lomas ambulance has a coachbuilt windscreen, doors and lower side panels.

This one has standard windscreen, doors and tub sides, although it is entirely possible the concept for it came from the Lomas ambulance.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Lionel, I think you are wrong. The Lomas ambulance has a coachbuilt windscreen, doors and lower side panels.

This one has standard windscreen, doors and tub sides, although it is entirely possible the concept for it came from the Lomas ambulance.

John

Hello John,

Or the other option was a converted "Piglet" from the Irish "Troubles".

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Lionel, I think you are wrong. The Lomas ambulance has a coachbuilt windscreen, doors and lower side panels.

This one has standard windscreen, doors and tub sides, although it is entirely possible the concept for it came from the Lomas ambulance.

John

Hello John,

The website does not provide a source however if the body is removable - as this photograph indicates - then it could be slipped over a stripped down cab of a Series IIA or a Series III and still maintain the doors. Accessed March 28th 2016 from http://www.lchr.org/a/24/mb/ambulances.html

The Series 2A Lomas Ambulance Accessed March 28th 2016 from https://www.flickr.com/photos/homer-...57623634576350

The Series III Lomas uses the standard Land Rover Cab. Accessed March 28th 2016 from Lomas Ambulances

It may be possible that between the Series 2A in the third photograph and the Series III in the first two photographs that Lomas had a hybrid between the wide body with the angled doors and custom windscreen plus custom doors to a more modular model for the later Series III?

The last photograph is of a 1964 Land Rover Series 2A that has a similar body to the Series 3 ambulance module. Accessed March 28th 2016 from, 1964 Land Rover Series 2A Lomas-bodied Ambulance JHR527B (22400399642) - Puebla Pictures.com So it looks like Lomas made different versions of ambulance modules and perhaps the one Isuzutoo-eh located was one of them.

Also throw on a Dormobile camper into the mix.

Kind Regards
Lionel

The Lomas examples have a different roof profile, the one I photographed appears to be in two pieces, potentially a pop-top, which none of the Lomas bodies in the photos I saw matched.
Piglets have a different roof too.


Heck it may be a doughnut truck or ice-cream van for all I know!

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

The Lomas examples have a different roof profile, the one I photographed appears to be in two pieces, potentially a pop-top, which none of the Lomas bodies in the photos I saw matched.
Piglets have a different roof too.


Heck it may be a doughnut truck or ice-cream van for all I know!

Hello Isuzutoo-eh,

Well you are in the best position to ask about its history Just out of idle curiosity and without measuring the available space in your yard - that is. I am not sure the "it just followed me home" excuse works more than once!

Kind Regards
Lionel

It certainly looks as if the history would be fascinating. Go on, follow it up!

John