Golden Acres Ambulance Service, St. Thomas - Custom-Built Ambulances - Heritage Collections Elgin-St. Thomas

Series: St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Golden Acres Ambulance Service, St. Thomas file

Scope and Content: Two black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published August 25, 1966 with captions:; "Exactness Required - A great deal of painstaking work is required in rebuilding a stock panel truck into a custom ambulance two feet longer and several inches higher than the original. Here C.L. (Chuck) Brubacher works on one of his custom ambulances in his one-room 'assembly line' behind his hardware store on Ross Street, St. Thomas. This partially completed ambulance is being built for a hospital in Kitchener." (4a); "Ready For The Road - Last minute finishing touches are all that are needed before this blue and white custom-made ambulance is turned over to the Goderich General Hospital. The ambulance is the product of Golden Lines Conversions, built by C.L. Brubacher, who for the past number of years has been custom building his own ambulances for Golden Acres Ambulance Service. The ambulance is being shown in Toronto today at the annual convention of the International Rescue and First Aid Association." (4b)