4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1941
NAMED MODELSpecial · AmbulanceUnited Kingdom

FWD ambulance.

The ambulance body on the FWD chassis, part of the same 6,500-vehicle series as the Box.

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Sources & evidence
BASE VEHICLEFWD Heavy Utility “Box” (1941–45)BUILT BYHumber Limited (Rootes Group), CoventryIN SERVICE1941PRODUCTIONPart of about 6,500LAYOUT4 wheels · 112″

The record

Four-wheel drive mattered more to an ambulance than to almost anything else: it had to reach the casualty and then carry them out over the same ground.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1941
ENGINERootes six-cylinder petrolRootes six-cylinder petrol
PRODUCTION RUNPart of about 6,500
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEFWD
FAMILYFWD
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE112″
BODY STYLEambulance
CATEGORYSpecial · Ambulance

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.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • Deep Bronze Green

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1Humber FWD ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: draft