French Army Durisotti Defender 130 Ambulance.

Durisotti of Sallaumines converted large numbers of Defenders for the French armed forces from the 1990s, mostly five-door 110 station wagons for the Army with some three-door 90s for the Navy, recognisable by minor detail changes over the standard Defender such as the extra marker light above the grille. Alongside them the Army used Durisotti Defender 130 ambulance conversions: a Defender 130 chassis-cab with a coachbuilt box body wider than the cab, a rounded Luton peak over the cab roof, a single side window and twin rear doors, finished in white with a yellow waist stripe on the cab, a yellow border and red cross on each body side, hazard diamonds and a blue beacon. Bob Morrison photographed this one with a French contingent on Joint Warrior 2013 at Braid Fell, and in his 2025 note on the French double cab said a full feature on the ambulances was planned. Numbers converted are not stated in the source.

The registry's model keeps the Defender 130's cab and front and replaces the double-cab tray with the box body, peak, livery, beacon and bumper chevrons from the photograph; the plate is read from the picture as 6091 and the body's dimensions follow the picture.

Durisotti's own brochure for the véhicule sanitaire médicalisé shows the same box body in civilian white with yellow trim, red crosses, a blue beacon and a rear-door spare; the coachbuilder recorded the design in both civilian and military paint schemes, and this registry model stands for both.