Advertising Last completed movie pages 1967 Ford D-800 Motor Racing Mobile Hospital Comments about this vehicle| Author | Message |
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◊ 2005-12-23 02:12 |
Ford D...but it is not complete -- Last edit: 2005-12-23 02:13:21 |
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◊ 2006-08-18 02:02 |
This is the "Stanley Passion Wagon". A mobile hospital used at major motor races. |
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◊ 2020-08-26 22:41 |
Please set year to 1965. |
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◊ 2020-08-26 22:57 |
Seems to be a "Ford D800-Series Grand Prix Mobile Hospital" built by Laundry Transport Services (LTS)  in Tremorfa, Cardiff and cost £50,000 according to this discussion, but not in 73/74 as claimed there. Can't find any other info, pics or a plate, which is surprising for such an important vehicle. |
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◊ 2020-08-27 17:14 |
More info knitted together from a mix of very faint sources, so may not be totally accurate in every detail. Catalyst seems to have been Jackie Stewart's serious crash in 1966 Belgian GP at Spa in a BRM, for whom he drove 1965-67, and after which he became a dedicated campaigner for safety in F1 and set up what became the Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA - still around today). BRM principal Louis Stanley (who may or may not have been an illegitimate son of UK PM Herbert Asquith, depending which lurid online rumour you read) sponsored the build in 1967 of the first mobile F1 hospital (of 2 - there was a later successor - details unknown, but might match the 73/74 date suggested for the Cardiff build by LTS in link above), which became known as the "Stanley Passion Wagon" after the 1910-ish US make of steam car. Apparently many F1 race organisers refused to admit to their races for the first year or two, but driver pressure meant it became established presence by the end of the 1960s. This first version is therefore likely to be the one seen here and in the picture book Flickr link - builder unknown. Then presumably its replacement arrived in 1973/74, built by LTS in Cardiff. The linked book info looks like the first version so the quoted cost of £50,000 in that caption would seem more likely to apply for the 1967 build. Also worth saying that the key element is the trailer, not the tractor unit which is interchangeable. So while a Ford D-800 seems the initially used unit, there may have been a sequence of them, with a progression of registrations. And other makes/types could also have been used over the years, particularly if lorry firms offered a new unit for publicity/sponsorship profile. Therefore trying to pin down a particular truck/registration or use that to assign a date may be a futile exercise. |
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◊ 2020-08-28 11:08 |
You may already have found these photographs here dsl but if not... German Grand Prix 1971, with a 1967 'E' registration (later edit) UVW 930E Essex registration of a/the tractor unit at the time. https://cdn-9.latimages.com/images/mgl/WPyrO/s4/7127617a.jpg https://cdn-9.latimages.com/images/mgl/2jYjE/s4/7127611a.jpg from here Link to "www.motorsportimages.com" edit: and here "Grand Prix Medical Centre in a Ford lorry at Le Mans 24 hours race, France 1970." ![[Image: lemansford.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/lemansford.jpg) Cropped and enlarged complete image here Link to "www.alamy.com" Mentioned here also Link to "forums.autosport.com" of a possible later GP medical unit with AEC tractor unit (K reg) and trailer with air-con unit visible but no photo found. -- Last edit: 2020-08-28 11:35:11 |
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◊ 2020-08-28 12:43 |
 Excellent - hadn't seen those links and pics at all. |
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◊ 2020-08-28 12:56 |
Good work everyone. This also intrigued me. Looking through the CM archive brought up nothing for Laundry Transport Services. In fact the only body builder listed for Cardiff in their 69 and 72 lists ( aside from Powell Duffryn who built bin wagons I believe) is a company called Allbodies Ltd who are also listed as ambulance builders in 1960 and their is a 1954 byline about them building a mobile road testing lab trailer. Allbodies Ltd were in Dumballs Road Cardiff which is in the area called Tremorfa (I think) so a tenuous link.😊 -- Last edit: 2020-08-28 22:05:42 |
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◊ 2025-02-04 17:17 |
Hi. I’ve read this discussion with great interest. I can confirm regarding the construction of the mobile hospital by LTS as I worked on it. If there is still interest I will post the full story of it. |
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◊ 2025-02-04 18:29 |
yes please!! |
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