IN TIMES PAST

1. Very first car used as an ambulance was a French Clement Talbot in 1909. 2. Originally cars were only used to drop officers off at houses with a litter. 3. The first person who took the wheels off the litter to create a stretcher to put into the car was disciplined. 4. Buicks and even an Austin Princess were used as ambulances during the war. 5. It costs about $240,000 to buy and fully equip a modern-day ambulance. 6. Early ambulances carried wooden splints. 7. Resuscitators used in the 1960s weighed about 20kg. 8. The most expensive piece of equipment is the self-loading stretcher, costing $23,000.