Filled with vintage photographs, illustrations, and working drawings, this 370-page book includes precise dimensions, harness specifications, and construction details for a wide range of ambulance models. It’s an ideal resource for historians, restoration professionals, reenactors, and anyone with a passion for medical or transportation history.
Whether you’re documenting a restoration or expanding your understanding of early medical innovations, this softcover book delivers exceptional insight into the function and design of these vital vehicles from the past.
Specifications
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Format: Softcover
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Dimensions: 8 1/2" x 11"
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Pages: 370
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Includes: Historical images, technical drawings, and working specs
CONTENTS:
MILITARY AMBULANCES
- Crimean War 1854-1856
- Medical And Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion
- Report of A. Board of Officers to Decide Upon a Pattern of Ambulance Wagon
- Specifications for Means of Transportation. Paulin's, Stoves and Ranges
- U.S. Army Wagon Harness (Horse and Mule) 1877
- Specifications for Means of Transportation, Paulin's, Stoves and Ranges
- United States Sanitary commission Bulletin
- United States Patents for Ambulances
- Israel Moses Ambulance Built by Brewster & Co
- Civil War - Photos and Illustrations
- American Indian Campaign
- John McDermott & Bros
- Studebakers Brothers Manufacturing Company
- Milburn Wagon Co
- Spanish American War
- British Military Ambulance
- Training the American Hospital- Corps Soldier
- Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving In the Field
- Specifications for United States Army Ambulance Model 1909
- Ambulance Model 1915 U.S.G.M.C. Jeffersonville Depot
- Harness
- Directions for setting Up Ambulances
- World War I
- Harness
- Medical Cart 1917 Model
- List of Other Illustrations and References
CIVILIAN AMBULANCES
- History of Ambulances
- Specifications and Drawings
- Civilian Ambulance Service
- Civilian Disasters
- Harness for Emergency Vehicles
- Endnotes for Civilian Ambulances
VETERINARY AMBULANCES
- Specifications and Drawings
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Fallen Horses
- Veterinary Care and Hospitals
- Horse Plague
- Care of Military Horses
- Life an Death of 19th Century Horses
- Life of 19th Century Cats and Dogs
- Index
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