Mike McDonald
PCS Member
In TCP-143 I saw the color advertising blotter submitted by Steve Loftin promoting the (private) ambulance services of Louisville Taxicab & Transfer. I was curious if any senior PCS members recall other larger cities having Yellow Cab Ambulances? I was in Louisville for a year or so in the mid 60's and Yellow Cab there still had a very large fleet of Superior-Cadillac Ambulances all painted the same burnt orange (rather than yellow) as shown on the blotter. They were housed primarily at a several story (brick) Yellow Cab Garage along with regular common yellow taxi's in downtown Louisville and probably at other locations too with the city limits? At the time, the Louisville PD had a number of Two-Man (B&W) Ford Ranch Wagons with a gurney in the back and a Federal Q on the RF Fender. As I recall, they would respond primarily to traffic accidents and larger police-fire incidents, but Yellow Cab Cadillac's would also respond Code-3 (or as requested) and do nearly 100% of the transports unless it was an officer or fireman that needed immediate transport. The burnt orange color would indicate to me at least that their Ambulance Division was probably related to then nationwide Yellow Freight. MM