djbombscare
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Glad it was some help stig,and good luck.
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Finding an elusive old one-off vehicle windscreen
- Thread starter Stig
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Leafster
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I know your Ambo is on a Transit but there are references on the Beford CF Message Board about Mountain bodies. Perhaps someone there can help you track them down.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
^^^ The Bedford and Transit versions seem to have uncannily similar looking screens at a cursory glance.
dunno if this will help, but here's someone with a blog about his Transit Mountain Ambulance with a bit of knack for finding (mechanical) parts by all accounts.
http://myambulance.blogspot.com/
He seems to turn up on http://fordtransit.org/'s forum too, so that might be another place to try.
dunno if this will help, but here's someone with a blog about his Transit Mountain Ambulance with a bit of knack for finding (mechanical) parts by all accounts.
http://myambulance.blogspot.com/
He seems to turn up on http://fordtransit.org/'s forum too, so that might be another place to try.
Velouria
Long time lurker
Perhaps a long shot, but do you know what health authority or private body used to have the ambulance (when it was an ambulance)?
It might be worth trying to find out, then contacting them. They may still have history on the vehicle - or know where to get a windscreen. If you were incredibly lucky they might have some in stock that are no use to them and flog them to you at a bargain price or give you them for free - but I admit that's unlikely. Not impossible but unlikely
It might be worth trying to find out, then contacting them. They may still have history on the vehicle - or know where to get a windscreen. If you were incredibly lucky they might have some in stock that are no use to them and flog them to you at a bargain price or give you them for free - but I admit that's unlikely. Not impossible but unlikely
Velouria
Long time lurker
There's also this lot ...
http://www.britishambulancesociety.co.uk/
They have forums, too
Sure, not all of them might appreciate your vehicle as it isn't 'preserved' but maybe some of them would be nice enough to give you help
edit to add: Hmm sadly their forums seem to be mainly full of unmoderated spam. Still might be worth a shot, especially when it comes to getting parts in future!
edit to add more: Phone this guy and ask if he ever had to replace the windscreen and where he got it if he did! http://www.djnickyp.com/partymedics/ambulance.html ... Or get in touch with St. John Ambulance Maidstone Division maybe? - http://ambulancepreservation.co.uk/1990/h972ekl.htm - I have a feeling that's the same type you have and the big bulge at the top of yours isn't original ...
http://www.britishambulancesociety.co.uk/
They have forums, too
Sure, not all of them might appreciate your vehicle as it isn't 'preserved' but maybe some of them would be nice enough to give you help
edit to add: Hmm sadly their forums seem to be mainly full of unmoderated spam. Still might be worth a shot, especially when it comes to getting parts in future!
edit to add more: Phone this guy and ask if he ever had to replace the windscreen and where he got it if he did! http://www.djnickyp.com/partymedics/ambulance.html ... Or get in touch with St. John Ambulance Maidstone Division maybe? - http://ambulancepreservation.co.uk/1990/h972ekl.htm - I have a feeling that's the same type you have and the big bulge at the top of yours isn't original ...
Stig
Condimentalist
And do you know what he did with his ambulance after he finished it?
http://www.djnickyp.com/partymedics/ambulance.html
velouria's link - check the email addy - it's the same guy. quality
That IS exactly the same as mine, btw, so we know it's a mountain (rip) made one for sure.
Velouria
Long time lurker
ExcellentThe excellent bloke and all round top guy with the party ambulance above has emailed me back with his windscreen specs.
I feel we may be getting somewhere. Those'll be phoned on to djbombscare and TopCat's source links tomorrow.
Lucky work is not too busy
my googling skillz did some good Looks like a Lesser Spotted Stig to me ... could be wrong.
Whoever they are, they're stealing your map of Australia!
This place let you search all subscribed scrapyards for a particular part:
http://www.breakeryard.com/
I've found them useful for odd bits before.
Giles..
http://www.breakeryard.com/
I've found them useful for odd bits before.
Giles..
djbombscare
Plays with knives
I'm getting excited
and I have no idea why
and I have no idea why
Stig
Condimentalist
------------------------------Update------------------------------------
------------------------------Wait for it------------------------------------
Man just phoned - he reckons he's just been round and fitted it.
I'm not sure I can believe this - Can't wait to get home
Best phone up the garage and get on with the rest of the MOT, (I believe it's a matter of a new side llight from halfords... )
Hold the bunting until i've seen this in the flesh, I don't want to speak too soon or count any chickens prematurely - photos pending
------------------------------Wait for it------------------------------------
Man just phoned - he reckons he's just been round and fitted it.
I'm not sure I can believe this - Can't wait to get home
Best phone up the garage and get on with the rest of the MOT, (I believe it's a matter of a new side llight from halfords... )
Hold the bunting until i've seen this in the flesh, I don't want to speak too soon or count any chickens prematurely - photos pending
Stig
Condimentalist
Marvellous! Now where are you going next?
Was it very costly?
it's going to cost me £450.
Better than the £1,000 I was quoted, not as good as the £100 I was also quoted. (neither of which ever found one anyway)
It's a fecking lottery, this motor lark, innit?
I haven't even paid the bloke yet, in fact I still haven't even met him!
Let me tell you the story:
I cross-posted this OP on the Ford Transit forums, and someone PMed me to say "Has this van you posted recently been in X garage at X location? I was the one the garage called out to have a look at it!"
amazing coincidence, small world etc...
Then I emailed the guy that velouria posted a link to with the party ambulance exactly the same as my one, and he emailed back the windscreen etchings from autoglass on his one. Turns out when I posted the windscreen etchings that he's also a poster on the same forum.
The first guy then spent a day on the phone, and finally found one.
I accepted the quote last night, and he phoned this morning to say he's been round the garage, picked up the keys, found the ambulance and just fitted it.
He'll be round tomorrow to pick up the cash.
So dodgy, but yet so right.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Try and keep the old screen, you will have it as a pattern to get one made up in perspex. Perspex is a great material for being low temp moulded you should be to get one made as a spare or to resell later.
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
Glad you got it sorted. The Transit Centre is usually the first place I look for obscure transit spares. I reckon I could have built a whole van from the parts I've had from them over the years
Stig
Condimentalist
Glad you got it sorted. The Transit Centre is usually the first place I look for obscure transit spares. I reckon I could have built a whole van from the parts I've had from them over the years
Cheers! I was suggested these people too:
http://www.specialisedengines.co.uk/index.htm
So I've got a couple of leads lined up for next time.
I'm liking Rambo all over again now. Might even get round to that paint job
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