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Kōrero: Ambulance services

Wanganui Hospital ambulance

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Wanganui Hospital ambulance

Many hospitals had their own ambulance, and from the 1920s these were motor vehicles. Sometimes the hospital owned the ambulance, but the service was operated by the St John ambulance brigade.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tesla Studios Collection (PAColl-3046)

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Nancy Swarbrick, Ambulance services – Development of ambulance services, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22350/wanganui-hospital-ambulance (accessed 14 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.