An Aerial Ambulance (1924)

Southampton, Hampshire. Title: “AN AERIAL AMBULANCE successfully tried ... it will transport cases to Hospital in 2 hrs. in British Guiana that previously took 17 days by land“. M/S of a man on a stretcher being lifted into the cockpit of an aeroplane using a pulley system. M/S of the man being lowered into the cockpit, the cockpit has extra wide hatches to fit a stretcher in, when the man on the stretcher is safely inside two other men fold up the pulley system and close the hatches. Panning L/S of the air ambulance aeroplane taking off from a lake. Panning L/S follows the plane as it comes in to land on the lake. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agen