Gross Mortuary Pontiac Ambulance on Emergency Run, Hot Springs, Arkansas, photo taken in 1968.

This sleek 1966 Superior consort Pontiac ambulance races down Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

 

With a loud Federal Q-2 siren, four alternating red bullet roof lights, and rotating red beaconray with two sealed-beams, this emergency ambulance was the best of its day. It actually had ample room for three stretcher patients, one on the main stretcher, one on a folding stretcher which could be rolled in next to the main stretcher, and one that could be suspended from the ceiling.

 

The vehicle was a short-wheeled base unit, easy to drive. It was used from 1967-1971 by Gross Mortuary as its first out emergency ambulance, and called "Car 6." It originally came painted all white, but later Gross Mortuary had its roof painted bright red. Photo taken by Dr. Jim Moshinskie.

 

ALSO SEE:

-- Gross Mortuary ambulance crew in action at a bad wreck in 1967

-- Last fleet of ambulances for Gross Mortuary

-- Picture of Gross Mortuary, 1967

-- The Gross Mortuary building through the years

 

Click here to view hundreds of historical photographs of undertakers, funeral homes, professonal vehicles, and early ambulances collected since 1967 by Jim Moshinskie (Dr. Mo), PhD, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA. This also includes Special Interest Groups for several individual states.

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