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P006 - Edition 1,500

  LCC

London City Council took over London’s ambulances in 1930, this service bravely continued through the dark days of World War II. By the end of 1945 some 48,709 war casualties had been assisted by the London County Council in conjunction with the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service. At its peak, the wartime service in Greater London included several thousand vehicles these ranged from private cars to goods vehicles that were brought into service at night after they had already done their day’s commercial duties. Like everyone else LCC found itself short of vehicles after the war but had an eye to the future and was quickly taking initiatives in ambulance design. LCC had a large advantage over most other authorities in that it had its own superbly equipped workshops at Wandsworth which was capable of producing large numbers of new bodied Bedford ambulances from 1947 onwards.