Old Photos, More T ambulances at work in France

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 01:48 am:


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dane Hawley Near Melbourne Australia on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 05:36 am:

Thanks Eric. Great photos.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hap Tucker in Sumter SC on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 06:27 am:

Thanks Eric -- I always love seeing how the Ford helped out in the great war.

Respectfully submitted,

Hap l9l5 cut off


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 07:36 am:

I posted most of those pictures and several more here back in August:

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/382042.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 10:05 am:

Royce, I figured I wasn't the first to see these but must have missed them here the first time around. These old images are always one of my favorite things about this forum.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:12 pm:

Interesting link:

http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/fieldoperations/default.htm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:13 pm:

Perhaps some images not yet shared....


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:16 pm:

This may be what many soldiers were hoping for......


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:16 pm:

But they only wished Clara Bow would show up.....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:17 pm:

This may be a good one. Anyone read this yet?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:19 pm:



This would be one of the few ways an injured soldier got a worse ride quality than a model T.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:23 pm:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:31 pm:

Anyone know who this famous person is?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Ohio on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 12:34 pm:

Walt Disney


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 05:51 pm:

It seems many groups raised funds to buy an ambulance to send to the war. Often with a logo on the side.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 09:17 pm:

Nice suite! This is the first time I have seen a bunch of these WW1 photos, Thanks for taking the time to share these here.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Gruber- Spanaway, Wash. on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 09:46 pm:

Great pictures Erich, thanks!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 10:38 pm:

Thanks, I love these too. Dennis, you are correct. Notice the cartoon he drew on the side.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 10:53 pm:

Hey Eric,
"Ambulance to the Front" is a great book about the author's grandfather's experience driving ambulances in WWI. There is a lot of background and personal information as well as history of his training and a great story about what happened when he returned to France in the 70s (If I recall correctly, I can not find my copy at this time) Just under 200 copies were printed, and if you want one, you best get it soon. You can get them from the author or through Amazon.
It should be noted that Walt Disney was not an ambulance driver in WWI, he was a Red Cross worker after the war, but the status of having been an ambulance driver was great, and Walt was not above cashing in on it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Townsend ; ^ ) Gresham, Orygun on Monday, October 14, 2013 - 11:48 pm:

I'd like to see the Scot Woman's Tish Hospital!

: ^ )

Love the pix, Erich.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 03:13 am:

A wonderful (and hopefully growing) collection of special photographs.
Thanks to all that posted some (and I don't care if some had been posted before, anything to help flush out more).
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:36 am:

Interesting link to first person esperience of being at the front in a flivver.

http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/Stevenson/flivver2.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:39 am:

Here are a few more.



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:42 am:

If you want a project, just blow this up to desired size and make your own WWI ambulance.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:51 am:

Another first person account.


http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7//wwi/memoir/Buswell/AAFS1.htm


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 11:18 am:

More info regarding the ambulance service...

http://www.ourstory.info/2/a/support.html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 11:20 am:

Link to a 3-D model image.

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/ww1-american-ambulance-max/753835


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 11:27 am:



Lizzy on the left?


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 12:56 pm:

Keith, your powers of observation are soooo acute.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 01:11 pm:

Link to my flickr photo set of military model T for these and other images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruckzone/sets/72157636532094934/


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:17 am:

Another link to further info.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?16211-WWI-Ford-Model-T-Ambulances

More images


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:22 am:

Real nice link to a chap down under building a T based WWI light patrole car.


http://www.desert-vehicles.org/index.php?article_id=223


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:30 am:

WWI ambulance pictures always make me think of my uncle who drove an ambulance "over there". His army excursion to France cured him of ever wanting to travel again.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:50 am:

How bout a USMC poem?

This poem entitled "Elizabeth Ford" is from Catlin's "with the help of God and a few Marines..." these are just the fisrt few stanzas...My thanks to Patrick Mooney for sharing!



We carried her over the sea, we did.
And taught her to hep, hep, hep
A cute little jinny, all noisy and tinny.
But full of Americap pep.

Recruited into the Corps she was
She came of her own accord.
We flew at her spanker the globe and the anchor
And named her Elizabeth Ford.

Cute little 'Lizabeth, dear little 'Lizaheth,
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford!

She was short and squat, but her nose was sot
For the Hindenburg line— Lord!
She hated a Hun like a son-of-a-gun^
The Kaiser she plumb abhorred.
Did chunky Elizabeth, hunky Elizabeth
Spunky Elizabeth Ford.

We took her along on our hikes, we did.
And a wonderful boat was she.
She'd carry physicians, food or munitions.
Generals, water, or tea.
She could climb a bank like a first-rate tank
And deliver the goods aboard
When we touch our steel Kellies to " Semper Fidelis,"
Remember Elizabeth Ford.

'Cute little *Lizabeth, dear little 'Lizabeth,
Bonnie Elizabeth Ford.

Beth


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:51 am:

Link to the site with that poem and a story of a specific Ford ambulance.

http://www.mca-marines.org/blog/beth-crumley/2012/01/31/%E2%80%9Celizaberth-ford %E2%80%9D-model-t-truck-france


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