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Bandiana UN Series 2A Ambulance.
1963 Australian Army Series 2A 109-inch 'Bloodbox' ambulance preserved in white United Nations livery at the Army Museum Bandiana, Victoria, representing the Australian medical vehicles that served with UN missions; plain white with red crosses on the body sides and rear doors and UN on the cab doors.
BASE VEHICLESeries II 109″BUILT BYPressed Metal CorporationIN SERVICE1963OPERATED INAustralia, United NationsPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 109″
The record
The Australian Army's Series 2A 109 ambulances were bodied by Pressed Metal Corporation with a tall four-stretcher box behind the standard cab — the 'Bloodbox' — and served from the early 1960s through Vietnam and on into the 1990s. Some went abroad with Australian UN contingents, most visibly the Force Communications Unit's ambulances with UNTAC in Cambodia in 1992–93, repainted white with red crosses and UN lettering.
The Army Museum Bandiana keeps this 1963 example in that white UN scheme to represent Australian UN medical support. Wikimedia Commons' photographs show it in the museum hall: white body and wheels, a plain red cross on each side of the box and on the rear doors, UN in black on the cab doors and the stretcher fit still inside. The registry model puts that livery on the Bloodbox body without the roundel crosses and beacon of the Army version.
Land Rover / Pressed Metal Corporation (ambulance body)
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERAustralian Army (UN repaint)
MANUFACTURED1963 build
ENGINERover 2.25 L petrol
PRODUCTION RUN1
COUNTRY OF ORIGINAustralia
OPERATED INAustralia, United Nations
STATUSmuseum
FITTINGSBloodbox ambulance body, UN white with red crosses, bonnet spare
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries IIA
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE109″
CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulances, Military · United Nations, Military · Australia
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Renders & references
Front three-quarterRegistry renderThree-quarterRegistry renderSideRegistry renderRearRegistry renderFrontRegistry renderRear three-quarter in the Bandiana museum hall — the exterior reference for this model; linked only.sv1ambo · CC BY 2.0 ↗Interior stretcher fit through the open rear doors; linked only.sv1ambo · CC BY 2.0 ↗