07-06-2019, 12:24 PM
Nothing to do with Austin 7s, but, interestingly, my maternal grandfather, a dental surgeon in Sheffield, had his Vulcan car fitted with an ambulance body during the First World War and used it to transport injured soldiers from the Midland Railway Station to the then Collegiate Crescent military hospital, just above his practice on Ecclesall Road. Uncle Norman related a story of driving a badly-burnt man so carefully that he let the tyres down as far as he dare, put the wheels in the tramlines and drove the whole way in first gear. After the war the body was removed and replaced by an open-tourer type for the summer and a saloon for the winter.