Series 2A Ambulance-bodied ERV

History

The Australian Army's Series 2A 109 ambulances — the 'Bloodbox', with Pressed Metal Corporation's tall four-stretcher body — were built in the 1960s and served through Vietnam and after. As later ambulances arrived, some of the ambulance bodies were repurposed: REMLR records ambulance-bodied vehicles reworked as Emergency Repair Vehicles, the enclosed body carrying a fitter's tools and spares to a broken-down vehicle in the field rather than casualties.

The example in REMLR's Ambulance-ERV gallery has lost its crosses and Army ambulance markings under a plain, faded grey-green repaint, carries a later Series III front with the headlamps out in the wings behind a heavy tubular bull bar with a winch, and has a locker let into the body side. The registry model takes the Bloodbox body, drops its crosses, roundels and roof beacon, adds the Series III front, bull bar, winch and locker, and leaves the bonnet bare as photographed.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Pressed Metal Corporation ↗

Land Rover / Pressed Metal Corporation (ambulance body)

Manufactured

Bloodbox production; ERV conversion later (approximate)

Modifier / coachbuilder

Australian Army workshops (ERV conversion)

Engine type

Rover 2.25 L petrol (not stated in the source)

Production run

unknown

Country of origin

Australia

Operated in

Australia

Status

preserved

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

• Ambulance ERV ↗ — Registry of Ex-Military Land Rovers (REMLR) (accessed 2026-09-12)

Catalogue references

• https://www.remlr.com/Ambulance-erv.php https://www.remlr.com/Ambulance-erv.php ↗