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Morris Commercial Ambulance 1939
This ambulance is possibly the only survivor of approximately 500 supplied in the late 1930s for the Second World War. Many went to France with the British Expeditionary Forces and were possibly lost at Dunkirk. It features the standard 4 stretcher ambulance body that was built by Mann Egerton - the same as was fitted to other ambulances by Bedford, and Austin. It is often mistaken for an Austin K2.
The ambulance left the army and was given the civilian registration, LNW 745, in 1947 in Leeds. It spent some of that time as a “mobile tool edging plant” (a mobile knife grinder). Later on, it appears to have been a mobile shop. It was then purchased as a restoration project, a project that took almost 15 years.
It came into the current owners ownership in 2021.
Technical details:
- Morris Commercial CS11/30F
- 30 cwt Heavy Ambulance
- Built in Birmingham in 1939
- Engine: 6 cylinder petrol engine
- Capacity: 3485 c.c. producing 60 bhp.
- 4 speed gearbox
- Leaf spring suspension all round
- Hydraulic brakes on all 4 wheels
- M.O.D. Contract number V3475 dated 22/8/1939
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