The PneuPac was a ventilator used for people who were not breathing or breathing inadequately. It’s driven by oxygen from a cylinder. The box controls the volume / rate of operation - how much oxygen in each cycle (breath). The machine has a valve to prevent over pressure.
I drove one of these when i was new, we had 249 at Rayleigh, this one was based at South Woodham i think, so may have driven it once or twice. Loved the Ford Transits! The cupboards above the cab used to have the blankets in, which kept your fish and chips warm if you got a job, the main O2 was an F size cylinder. The defibs that fitted into the cupboard were lifepak 10's, which changed to lifepak 12's not long after I started.
Is the button a run lock? The diesel models were not well liked, the previous Hanlon built Transit had a 3L V6 Petrol engines. The hundreds of emergency calls we get daily would now be the six thousand calls we get daily!
Those random single-flash strobes were always crap. The heads were self-contained with the capacitor built-in. They were much better when they moved to multi-head strobe supply units where alternating double-flash patterns were the norm.
An ambulance that had an easy life, Essex AS otherwise known as the Eternal Flame Ambulance Service never went out, leaving neighbouring services to do the heavy lifting. The crews even had a uniform pyjama and slippers issue for their night shifts of uninterrupted sleep, always time for a one-hour meal break and no close to the end-of-shift calls in Essex.🤣
I used to work in aprivate ambulance company in 2016-2019, it is interesting how much the modern vehicles tie over to these vehicles, the iv rails etc but also how the ergonomics and function have adaptedto the role. I also used to work in the stores and my boss was a bit of a horder so we used to have loads of those ventilators, a few if those back boards and a few other stuff, i think we even had one pf those stretchers from those early days I also used to work with a few of the old sweats in their 60's and even some in their 70's and it's fascinating how much the role has changed and how much the training has changed.
A few things that stand out to me, that raised seat behind the patient would be a pain to me personally seats now tend to be at the same height, opaque doors making it harder to be able to visually recognise equipment in a rush and the lack of a side sliding door meaning to grab a kit bag you need to go in the back not just hop out, grab the bag and go. If you are ever up north head to to the national emergency services museum in Sheffield they have a more modern ambulance and you'll spot the changes instantly. Also noise, that back board would rattle like mad, as well as the latching method on those those cupboards I imagine and it's not until you've spent a few hours in a bus with a rattle that you notice it and it drives you mad lol. Overall very good video though keep it up, I'm good to binge the rest of your uploads over the next week.
We had these in Queensland Australia. Their primary purpose was for non-emergency patient transport, but in small towns paramedics occasionally used them as primary response units. Poorly built and the 3.0 V6 was woefully underpowered. About 95% of our ambulance fleet back then consisted of the Ford F-250/F-350s with either the 5.8L petrol or 7.3L diesel engine, so the power of the Transit was a rude shock.
The oxygen cylinder was originally an ‘F’ size with bullnose fitting. The pneupac consisted of two parts. The cylinder with regulator and Schrader connector (female) and a male connector attached to the pneupac module. It was a time cycled ventilator which had a mask attached to the outlet tubing. This was generally not used and replaced by a bag,valve, mask. There is so much I could tell you about the vehicle & kit having been in the service from 1989 to 2002. Reach out if you want more info.
Has it been retrofitted with LEDs in the blue lights? I don't remember them being that way. So cool to see though, trip down memory lane into the recent past.
if I'm right it may be an electrical check button, When you press it and everything works fine no noise, But if you hear a beep/buzz one of the lights are faulty or there is a short in electrics. I remember something very similar in an ex-police transit van, but then again it may not be the same function in this.
Gonna be frank, its a lot more bare than I would have expected. This is coming from the perspective of an EMT in the U.S however. We have a 1993 BLS frontline unit and it's got a lot more cubard space in it. Am I missing something or was there just not a lot the ambulances could do in England 30 years ago?
Ours has most of the kit if would have originally had. It definitely took until the early 2000s for UK ambulances to have advanced kit or specialist units. For a long time here, an ambulance just transferred you to hospital without treatment.
@@klassicgarage It was the same way here, it wasn't until 20 years ago we did more treatment on the side of the road. It just looks more sparse, even tho I know it holds the same amount of kit. Mainly due to the fact that we don't use removable bags for most of the stuff, its stocked in cubards.
The red button on the far left, if it has a picture of an engine on it (cant see) that would be runlock. Press the button, remove keys and engine continues running until handbrake/footbrake/clutch used. The "battery override"...... There will be a battery monitor circuit that will kill all electrical power when the battery drops below a certain level, pressing that simply enable the systems again to permit starting. The radio, that is an old Pye set, that was out of date a decade before that vehicle was built, Bodie and Doyle used those! Pnuepac, ventilator system for assisted breathing
Red button on dash wouldn't be remote opening of ambo station garage door? I remember something similar in the very early 2000s ilwhen I worked for the local ambo service.
Under the bonnet there's a box with fuses for each emergency element - lights, sirens etc. When used on the road, we pull all of those out to disable them.
@@klassicgarage we had a German police car my dad bought when I was younger, he drove it back to the uk and the lights were still on the top so he had to cover them up with black bin bags and put a black tape cross over the markings
Got some videos of you arriving/leaving at Brooklands Emergency Services day last weekend, I’d be more than happy to send over the videos? Do you have a Instagram or email?
The gas cylinder would have been a size F ( four dozen cubic foot of gas) the smaller one was a D (dozen cubic foot of gas) I remember the LSU units but Laerdal were expensive charging well over £100+vat for the battery packs, I used to be able to rebuild the packs cheaper using higher cacity batteries. Pneupack was a portable ventilator, it used a black cyclinder with a white collar, this identified the cylinder as medical oxygen compared to the plain black cylinder for industrial usage, the Gas and Air is called ENTONOX, it is 50% Nitrous Oxide and 50% Medical Oxygen, having a blue cylinder with a blue and white check collar. Surrey Ambulance had those and they referec to them as UGLY VAST AND GUTLESS, UVC used to be called CUSTOMLINE, and they originally produced the LAZER ambulance body that you have, this could have been on a Transit, Renault, LDV, they then bought Wadham Stringer coachbuilders from Whadham kenning and took Ambulance manufacturing up north, leaving only the bus and coach building in Waterloovile in Hampshire. I beleive Surrey Ambulance bought Transit Lazers, they had both rotary mirror and strobe in the front roof blue lights, the crews complained about the strobe so the engineers ended up putting black tape around the side of the strobe unit to fix this. Nice vehicle well done for saving it
Amazing, absolutely love this kind of knowledge and insight - thank you! We did make a video about the Lazer if you look back on the channel too 😀 she's out for TV work all this week and it seems I'm learning more about it by the day
These Engines just kept going and going
Suction units were emptied and cleaned at the hospital in preparation for perhaps the next call, so twenty years of service.... that never happened.
The PneuPac was a ventilator used for people who were not breathing or breathing inadequately. It’s driven by oxygen from a cylinder. The box controls the volume / rate of operation - how much oxygen in each cycle (breath). The machine has a valve to prevent over pressure.
Brought back some memories. We had them on the mercs though.
I drove one of these when i was new, we had 249 at Rayleigh, this one was based at South Woodham i think, so may have driven it once or twice. Loved the Ford Transits! The cupboards above the cab used to have the blankets in, which kept your fish and chips warm if you got a job, the main O2 was an F size cylinder. The defibs that fitted into the cupboard were lifepak 10's, which changed to lifepak 12's not long after I started.
Amazing! Thank you so much, onto eBay to try and find both those bits 😊
Is the button a run lock? The diesel models were not well liked, the previous Hanlon built Transit had a 3L V6 Petrol engines. The hundreds of emergency calls we get daily would now be the six thousand calls we get daily!
Ah I'll have to try that then to see
Yes (But keep it quiet as there are naughty people out there)
Those random single-flash strobes were always crap. The heads were self-contained with the capacitor built-in. They were much better when they moved to multi-head strobe supply units where alternating double-flash patterns were the norm.
Loved watching 999 when it was on
An ambulance that had an easy life, Essex AS otherwise known as the Eternal Flame Ambulance Service never went out, leaving neighbouring services to do the heavy lifting.
The crews even had a uniform pyjama and slippers issue for their night shifts of uninterrupted sleep, always time for a one-hour meal break and no close to the end-of-shift calls in Essex.🤣
Saw this at brooklands. Awesome been years since seen and old one
I used to work in aprivate ambulance company in 2016-2019, it is interesting how much the modern vehicles tie over to these vehicles, the iv rails etc but also how the ergonomics and function have adaptedto the role. I also used to work in the stores and my boss was a bit of a horder so we used to have loads of those ventilators, a few if those back boards and a few other stuff, i think we even had one pf those stretchers from those early days I also used to work with a few of the old sweats in their 60's and even some in their 70's and it's fascinating how much the role has changed and how much the training has changed.
It's so rudimentary on the surface but actually laid out quite well I guess. I'll have to have a proper look round a modern one to compare
A few things that stand out to me, that raised seat behind the patient would be a pain to me personally seats now tend to be at the same height, opaque doors making it harder to be able to visually recognise equipment in a rush and the lack of a side sliding door meaning to grab a kit bag you need to go in the back not just hop out, grab the bag and go. If you are ever up north head to to the national emergency services museum in Sheffield they have a more modern ambulance and you'll spot the changes instantly. Also noise, that back board would rattle like mad, as well as the latching method on those those cupboards I imagine and it's not until you've spent a few hours in a bus with a rattle that you notice it and it drives you mad lol. Overall very good video though keep it up, I'm good to binge the rest of your uploads over the next week.
Used one of these at St.John amb ! ❤
epic, could you do one of these with an LDV van?
Absolutely, LDV Ambulance or Panel Van?
@@klassicgarage either would be cool, preferably the van
We do still build and use ambulances with a cab walk through in the UK. They are common in London.
We had these in Queensland Australia. Their primary purpose was for non-emergency patient transport, but in small towns paramedics occasionally used them as primary response units. Poorly built and the 3.0 V6 was woefully underpowered. About 95% of our ambulance fleet back then consisted of the Ford F-250/F-350s with either the 5.8L petrol or 7.3L diesel engine, so the power of the Transit was a rude shock.
We briefly had American style V8 ambulances in the UK during the 90s, don't think we'd afford the fuel bill as a country now 😂
The oxygen cylinder was originally an ‘F’ size with bullnose fitting. The pneupac consisted of two parts. The cylinder with regulator and Schrader connector (female) and a male connector attached to the pneupac module. It was a time cycled ventilator which had a mask attached to the outlet tubing. This was generally not used and replaced by a bag,valve, mask. There is so much I could tell you about the vehicle & kit having been in the service from 1989 to 2002. Reach out if you want more info.
Absolutely, would love to have a chat. Email address is on our RUclips profile
@@klassicgarage drop me a line
Today's ambulances have blinding lights.
The disassembly and assembly of those suction units was a critical pass or fail test when I trained in 2000
Fancy putting your skills to the test 25 years later? 😊
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Has it been retrofitted with LEDs in the blue lights? I don't remember them being that way. So cool to see though, trip down memory lane into the recent past.
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Sponsor the video and buy me a mic 😂
Old school Pye radio... Think Philips took over from them when they bought Pye out?
Is that ford transit turbo Ambulance Still available to convert into a Camper van
if I'm right it may be an electrical check button, When you press it and everything works fine no noise, But if you hear a beep/buzz one of the lights are faulty or there is a short in electrics. I remember something very similar in an ex-police transit van, but then again it may not be the same function in this.
The diesels were a shadow of the 200bhp 3l petrol versions.
better diesel engine than a new one
What about your next video 📹, about a Bedford CF 80s ambulance,please
Hopefully the cambelt has been changed since it was in service as they deteriorate with age aswell.
Gonna be frank, its a lot more bare than I would have expected. This is coming from the perspective of an EMT in the U.S however. We have a 1993 BLS frontline unit and it's got a lot more cubard space in it. Am I missing something or was there just not a lot the ambulances could do in England 30 years ago?
Ours has most of the kit if would have originally had. It definitely took until the early 2000s for UK ambulances to have advanced kit or specialist units. For a long time here, an ambulance just transferred you to hospital without treatment.
@@klassicgarage It was the same way here, it wasn't until 20 years ago we did more treatment on the side of the road. It just looks more sparse, even tho I know it holds the same amount of kit. Mainly due to the fact that we don't use removable bags for most of the stuff, its stocked in cubards.
The red button on the far left, if it has a picture of an engine on it (cant see) that would be runlock. Press the button, remove keys and engine continues running until handbrake/footbrake/clutch used.
The "battery override"...... There will be a battery monitor circuit that will kill all electrical power when the battery drops below a certain level, pressing that simply enable the systems again to permit starting.
The radio, that is an old Pye set, that was out of date a decade before that vehicle was built, Bodie and Doyle used those!
Pnuepac, ventilator system for assisted breathing
Is this vehicle back in Essex now ? I was at a fire station event today and spoke to an ex Essex paramedic who knew that vehicle very well.
We're not too far :) happy to reunite it to hear more stories
I saw your ambulance on another RUclips channel that was recording at the 999 day, it reminds me of the old Merc sprinter from Casualty
Was it Surrey 999? The Bill had this shape Transit ambulance in a few major incident episodes too.
Red button on dash wouldn't be remote opening of ambo station garage door? I remember something similar in the very early 2000s ilwhen I worked for the local ambo service.
Ooo now that's a bit of James Bond-esque thinking. Might have to program it to do just that!
How do drive with the blue lights on it ?
Under the bonnet there's a box with fuses for each emergency element - lights, sirens etc. When used on the road, we pull all of those out to disable them.
@@klassicgarage we had a German police car my dad bought when I was younger, he drove it back to the uk and the lights were still on the top so he had to cover them up with black bin bags and put a black tape cross over the markings
The phneupac is a ventilator mate
Thank you
The radio is a PYE, not PE
Got some videos of you arriving/leaving at Brooklands Emergency Services day last weekend, I’d be more than happy to send over the videos? Do you have a Instagram or email?
That'd be great thank you - we're on Instagram @klassicgarage
The gas cylinder would have been a size F ( four dozen cubic foot of gas) the smaller one was a D (dozen cubic foot of gas)
I remember the LSU units but Laerdal were expensive charging well over £100+vat for the battery packs, I used to be able to rebuild the packs cheaper using higher cacity batteries.
Pneupack was a portable ventilator, it used a black cyclinder with a white collar, this identified the cylinder as medical oxygen compared to the plain black cylinder for industrial usage, the Gas and Air is called ENTONOX, it is 50% Nitrous Oxide and 50% Medical Oxygen, having a blue cylinder with a blue and white check collar.
Surrey Ambulance had those and they referec to them as UGLY VAST AND GUTLESS,
UVC used to be called CUSTOMLINE, and they originally produced the LAZER ambulance body that you have, this could have been on a Transit, Renault, LDV, they then bought Wadham Stringer coachbuilders from Whadham kenning and took Ambulance manufacturing up north, leaving only the bus and coach building in Waterloovile in Hampshire.
I beleive Surrey Ambulance bought Transit Lazers, they had both rotary mirror and strobe in the front roof blue lights, the crews complained about the strobe so the engineers ended up putting black tape around the side of the strobe unit to fix this.
Nice vehicle well done for saving it
Amazing, absolutely love this kind of knowledge and insight - thank you! We did make a video about the Lazer if you look back on the channel too 😀 she's out for TV work all this week and it seems I'm learning more about it by the day
@@klassicgarage I was in SJA for 30 yrs and knew several Surrey Paramedics I was SJA Level 2 emergency transportation