CMP 3G1 Ambulance body parts needed.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Hanno, Egbert and I went to view an Ambulance earlier this year, which was silver inside the body. Doors were body colour on the inside. The truck in question was unrestored, low mileage, ex french Navy.

I think I see the same silver colour in Derk's pictures. Also, in black and white pictures it's pretty difficult to see the difference between white and silver. In the pic Robert posted, to me, the interior looks to be silver, while the stretcher frames could maybe be white, or silver reflecting the sun/sky(?)

[Robert Bergeron]

Hallo Alex. I have an original non restored or modified in my yard and it’s white.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Sorry Robert; I didn't know you had one in the yard, I thought you were just basing it on the black and white picture.

In that case it seems there were at least two different interior colours used; silver and white.

I also noted there are differences in the position of the seat and water tank in these bodies, but haven't checked Clive's book yet to see if it's in there. Sometimes the water tank is left and the seat on the right, sometimes it's mirrored. At first I though the factory pictures might have been mirrored, but judging from the axle this doesn't seem to be the case

[derk derin]

I just went outside to the Ambulance box and at first glance it has a Silver paint job inside but looking closer underneath the silver paint you can see there is white paint. From there it is the thin Red pressboard that the interior is sheeted with. So I would say the interior was originally white from the factory. At some point my box was painted silver, both inside and outside so somebody wanted to give it a new paint job to clean it up!
The inside of the doors are painted the same green colour as the outside of the vehicle. The doors when swung all the way open could be secured by a lower latch on the bottom of the ambulance body and held to the side of the body.

[derk derin]

As for the different interior layouts of the bodies according to my manuals the ambulance body styles 3F1 and 3G1 had the blanket locker with water tank on top at the Left of the front of the body with the attendants seat on the right side up front.

[derk derin]

The Ambulance body 3G2 had the exterior water heater mounted to the right side of the body so they reversed the layout so the water tank was on the right front corner of the box.

[derk derin]

The 3G2 model Ambulance box.