Oxford Diecast HO 87CV50001 1950 Chevrolet 3100 Panel Van, Ambulance

An American panel van (delivery van this side of the Atlantic) from the 1950s as adapted for use as an ambulance. It looks the part with its bulbous shape of the period when panel vans were usually built on passenger car chassis and would have had only one row of seats for the driver and a passenger alongside.

The two-door vehicle here is decorated in white with a lower section masked red, out of which a white cross features on the doors. The side rear windows have been silvered and the two rear doors also have small windows. Note the chrome wheels with red centres and whitewall tyres, too. To complete the look, a red emergency beacon has been added to the roof, the Chevrolet badge sits on the front of the bonnet and along the sides of the bonnet above the front wheel the Chevrolet 1300 marque is printed in silver. Our Chevrolet Ambulance is registered 747. RW Ohio in 1950.