[quote name='Pete(UK)' post='198290' date='Mar 20 2008, 11:24 ']Wow, got to be one of a kind, made by Reeve.[/quote]
I was pretty sure I'd seen this one before, so a trip to the bookcase was in order. From 'Ambulances' by Chris Batten, Shire Publications, 1996, p27:
"REEVE SOVAM 'CONCORD'
In 1971 Reeve Coachbuilders took over the ambulance side of Smith-Appleyard of Gateshead and a project to build a vehicle based on a chassis by the French Company Sovam; . . .The LAS ordered the prototype. . .which was delivered in January 1973. No more were ordered but the prototype has been preserved."
It's pictured next to a 1968 Dennis prototype which bears a startling resemblance to a Matchbox toy I had as a kid. Both were early attempts to design a rig for field treatment instead of just transport.
BTW Pete, I love the old Morris and Austins with the bells on their noses. Cool.
I was pretty sure I'd seen this one before, so a trip to the bookcase was in order. From 'Ambulances' by Chris Batten, Shire Publications, 1996, p27:
"REEVE SOVAM 'CONCORD'
In 1971 Reeve Coachbuilders took over the ambulance side of Smith-Appleyard of Gateshead and a project to build a vehicle based on a chassis by the French Company Sovam; . . .The LAS ordered the prototype. . .which was delivered in January 1973. No more were ordered but the prototype has been preserved."
It's pictured next to a 1968 Dennis prototype which bears a startling resemblance to a Matchbox toy I had as a kid. Both were early attempts to design a rig for field treatment instead of just transport.
BTW Pete, I love the old Morris and Austins with the bells on their noses. Cool.