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Ingersoll Auto Body of Ingersoll, Ontario manufactured a limited number
of ambulances and funeral vehicles for regional Canadian customers during the 1940s. All of their vehicles
were built using standard coupes and sedans that were stretched and/or modified for professional service.
Like their Ontario neighbor, John Little, Ingersoll specialized in
converting long-wheelbase 7-passenger production limousines for use as
side-servicing ambulances and funeral coaches. Ingersoll placed a removable
center-post between the two passenger-side doors and reinforced the door
sills and sub-flooring as well as the chassis so the vehicle could accept
the extra weight. Occasionally they would split a standard wheelbase
Chevrolet sedan or panel delivery and insert a hand-made section between the
halves, but the bulk of their work was in the more-profitable and affordable
sedan-ambulance conversions. Typically the sedan delivery's metal panels
were retained in the rear quarters and a landau bar installed in the center.
For Ambulances the windows from a Chevrolet Wagon could be substituted for
the metal panels and a removable landau bar-equipped panel would be used on
combination models.
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