Original 744

Ambulance 744 was a 1979, stripped, 4wheel drive Ford truck chassis with a body bought and mounted by the Squad for use in "off the road" situations. All the equipment, lights, and furnishings were also purchased separately, and installed by the members. The "project" was supervised by Herman Lambertz, who did all the machining and metal work at his machine shop in Paterson.

At the time, there were many nonpaved dirt "roads" in Milton which were not very accessible with the ambulances of the day. Since the Squad was not able to afford buying a vehicle of this type, it was decided to build one ourselves. 744 proved a very wise investment on many occasions on snowy and muddy dirt roads in Milton. A couple of times 744 was even used to pull Police cars out that were stuck at the scene.

744 had been loctated at police headquaters. It was recently sold. 

Below are some picture of 744.

We must have renumbered vehicles at some point in time as I came across the pictures below and it looks like 744 starte out life as 734: