Old EMS buses

[Capttomo]

The bread vans.....before the days of Paramedics. A driver and a Corpsman. Notice the front bumper. It was a rubber bladder filled with water. If they hit something the plugs on the top would pop out.....supposedly dampened low impact hits. Some of the Taxi Cabs had those bumpers back then as well. I always wondered if the bumper froze to a big block of ice in the winter. I believe these buses were based out of the old Fordham Hospital.

 

[Elmerj]

They were still in use up until late 1984. Used only for hospital grounds transfer from Jacobi main building to VanEtten hospital also on the grounds of the Jacobi campus. I would imagine that other facilities had them still in use for grounds transport but I can only remember Jacobi.