Bandiana UN Series 2A Ambulance
1963 Australian Army Series 2A 109-inch 'Bloodbox' ambulance preserved in white United Nations livery at the Army Museum Bandiana, Victoria, representing the Australian medical vehicles that served with UN missions; plain white with red crosses on the body sides and rear doors and UN on the cab doors.
History
The Australian Army's Series 2A 109 ambulances were bodied by Pressed Metal Corporation with a tall four-stretcher box behind the standard cab — the 'Bloodbox' — and served from the early 1960s through Vietnam and on into the 1990s. Some went abroad with Australian UN contingents, most visibly the Force Communications Unit's ambulances with UNTAC in Cambodia in 1992–93, repainted white with red crosses and UN lettering.
The Army Museum Bandiana keeps this 1963 example in that white UN scheme to represent Australian UN medical support. Wikimedia Commons' photographs show it in the museum hall: white body and wheels, a plain red cross on each side of the box and on the rear doors, UN in black on the cab doors and the stretcher fit still inside. The registry model puts that livery on the Bloodbox body without the roundel crosses and beacon of the Army version.
Imagery
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Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Pressed Metal Corporation ↗Land Rover / Pressed Metal Corporation (ambulance body)
- Manufactured
- 1963 build
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Australian Army (UN repaint)
- Engine type
- Rover 2.25 L petrol
- Production run
- 1
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Operated in
- Australia, United Nations
- Status
- museum
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Series IIA
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 109″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- 1963 Land Rover Series 2A 109in WB ambulance - United Nations (5637209444) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-12)
- 1963 Land Rover Series 2A 109in WB ambulance - United Nations (5636634585) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1963_Land_Rover_Series_2A_109in_WB_ambulance_-_United_Nations_(5637209444).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1963_Land_Rover_Series_2A_109in_WB_ambulance_-_United_Nations_(5637209444).jpg ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T09:13:06.256Z · status: researched