Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 03/22/2018 at 09:15 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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My back is getting better, but mornings are always the worst. Which one of you car geniuses can tell me what this vehicle is? And please, don’t say, “It’s an ambulance.”

diplodicus > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:20

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My googlefu says Bedford J1 Ambulance

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:23

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A van. Definitely a van.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:23

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Bedford TJ I’d say—

ttyymmnn > diplodicus 03/22/2018 at 09:33

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I wasn’t going to cheat....

fintail > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:36

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Matchbox made one of these for a long time:

Calling it the “Bedford Lomas ambulance”.

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:37

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It’s a Bedford J1 with a body made by Herbert Lomas coachbuilders.

The video is in a school child manner but interesting to see things of it’s time.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 09:56

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A white ambulance.

ttyymmnn > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 03/22/2018 at 09:59

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Thanks. That clears everything up.

ttyymmnn > Svend 03/22/2018 at 10:00

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Thank God Pamela isn’t seriously hurt.

Thanks. That was fun.

ttyymmnn > fintail 03/22/2018 at 10:04

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That’s cool.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 03/22/2018 at 10:04

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You are in good company. Lots of answers on this one.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 10:05

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Even partly hidden, the name on the hood was a big clue.

Also, I googled it, too - Bedfords weren’t sold in the US.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 03/22/2018 at 10:07

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I enlarged the picture to see what the sign said, but didn’t think to look at the hood. I’m not at all familiar with that vehicle anyway, so it wouldn’t have done much good if I had. Svend posted a video of one. It sounded like a beast.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 10:09

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Always happy to be of help.

diplodicus > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 10:10

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I didn’t do GIS. Just good old fashioned police work.

ttyymmnn > diplodicus 03/22/2018 at 10:17

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I will allow it then.

user314 > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 10:35

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Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude.

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 10:35

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Lol.

I love looking back at stuff like this.

I remembered the ambulance from a TV series here in the U.K. centred around a hospital in Yorkshire in the 60s, called The Royal. Itself an off shoot from a TV series centred around a police officer in a village in the 60s called Heartbeat.

This video takes me back. They were just taking these out of service when I started. I still remember the ambulance checks, those suction units on the side on the unit on the left at the 0:45 mark, we still had the cases at the 1:50 mark but they had been taken out of the ambulances by then and were used for storage and how to wrap a patient in a chair or a York 4 stretcher so they are secure.

I can tell you, those stretchers are not comfortable to sleep on, on those long shifts.

Some happy days but it burned me out and now I like the quieter life of cleaning cars during the day and filling shelves at night.

ttyymmnn > Svend 03/22/2018 at 10:52

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I had no idea you used to be a medic. What was your role? I have a niece who drives an ambulance in Richmond, VA. She’s studying to become a paramedic, but I think for now she is just an EMT/Driver. She loves it, and I think she has the right mentality for it. My mom also worked as an EMT in rural Illinois for a few years back in the 80s. She enjoyed it, but found it terribly stressful. Being out in the country, she worked more than a few auto/train crashes. She also said something that I have never forgotten: Picking up a motorcycle rider who wasn’t wearing a helmet is like picking up a sack of marbles.

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 11:19

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I was an ambulance tec, so your EMT I guess for eight years.

It is a stressful job and you have to be a happy person with a tough skin and a strange sense of humour helps too.

I got out because I was enjoying it for the wrong reasons. I was getting adrenaline rushes on call outs and incidents which to me for myself was wrong, I saw it as getting a rush from others misfortune and couldn’t do it after that. I went into the private ambulance business with two other partners for a while but it just became stressful in another way as each wanted to go in different directions so I walked away.

I remember working a few times alongside but not with a ‘lifer’, being a paramedic was his life, he didn’t know anything else but the job got to him and he’d have a pint of beer or two before work and when he finished his shift, he’d spend the rest of the evening in the pub.

There were great times and some not so great times.

I’ve a friend who lives in Manchester that was at the Manchester Arena during the Ariana Grande concert bombing.

ttyymmnn > Svend 03/22/2018 at 11:28

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It is extremely important to be able to separate your job from your life. Even in the music business, there are people who can do nothing but talk about what they do. When I was in grad school, I was sitting outside with some friends and we were all just shooting the breeze. This one guy came out and before he could open his mouth, I said, “Warren, you are welcome to join us, but you can’t talk about trumpet. You can talk about the weather, sports, politics, women, anything, but just not trumpet.” He stood there for about five minutes saying nothing, and then went back inside.

Svend > ttyymmnn 03/22/2018 at 11:46

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It’s hard when your work literally is life and death sometimes. You start hanging around your colleagues more to wind down and debrief.

Your job becomes your life, your colleagues become your family.

You find it hard being around others who aren’t in the business.

I’ve been on holidays when people have got sick and our group just put our holiday on hold, did what we needed to do and then went back to our holiday again.

I’ve worked that often that the only cloths I have to wear are uniform so when I went out for a meal or a drink, I look like I’m still at work. Even when I wasn’t visibly in uniform people would come up to me and call me sir or officer because I just had that look of being a police or ambulance officer. Hell years later I still get double takes.

I like helping people but I don’t think I could go back into it again.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 03/23/2018 at 06:41

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TK Bedford