One-Stop-Shopping......! UPDATE

Update by Kit Foster:" As strange as it may now seem, the combination hearse/ambulance service was once quite common in USA, especially in smaller towns. Ambulances, before the 1970s, were mostly "load 'em and haul 'em" vehicles, made to ride softly and go fast. The mobile Intensive Care Unit staffed with paramedics is a modern phenomenon. Ambulances had much in common with hearses (both usually built on the "professional" chassis of Cadillac, Packard, etc. and bodied by the same specialist firms: Miller, Meteor, S&S, etc.) So a funeral director would often run an ambulance service as a sideline. There were even "combination cars," equipped to carry stretchers or coffins, as the need required."
Seen at Hershey.(editor photo)

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