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Story: Ambulance services

Wanganui Hospital ambulance

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Wanganui Hospital ambulance

Many hospitals had their own ambulance, and from the 1920s these were motor vehicles. Sometimes the hospital owned the ambulance, but the service was operated by the St John ambulance brigade.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Ambulance services – Development of ambulance services, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22350/wanganui-hospital-ambulance (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 4 February 2010.