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Ford World War I Ambulance Bibliography

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Archival

• Acc. 542 Cost Accounting general files
  • box 87 Cost information on Model T Ambulance “Ambulance – first 2,512, 1917” list of parts, Ambulance Report 8-1-1918
                               
• Acc. 75 Legal Department Records Series
  • box 54 L-2860 Ambulance File (3 folders) (includes a blueprint of ambulance body)
     
• Acc. 572 Nevins and Hill Research Series
  • box 26 Folder 11.30.3 (folder 6 of 7) War Conditions and Activities. “History of Motor Transport Contracts”
     
• Acc. 267 World War I Production Contracts Series
  • box 4 900 Ambulances, October 9, 1918
  • box 5
    • 600 Ambulances, November 1, 1918
    • 136 Ambulances, December 1, 1918
  • box 10
    • Ambulances; Philadelphia, PA, May 25, 1918
    • 4 Ambulances; Ireland, June 13, 1918
    • 4 Ambulances; Norfolk, VA, June 18, 1918
  • box 11
    • Ambulance; Washington, D.C., July 11, 1918
    • Ambulance; San Pedro, CA, July 13, 1918
    • Ambulances; France, August 10, 1918
    • Ambulances; Brooklyn Export & San Diego, CA, September 20, 1918
    • Ambulances; Miami, FL, September 21, 1918
  • box 12 Ambulances, October 21, 1918 (Brooklyn, NY, Wakefield, MA, Cape May, NJ, San Diego, CA, Chatham, MA, Washington, D.C., Glen Burnie, MD, Norfolk, VA, Charleston, SC , Boston, MA, Paris Island)
     
• Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
  • box 94 Folder 250A Commercial Trucks
  • box 293 Army trucks and Ambulances, WWI
     
• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
  • box 167 WWI-Ambulances
     
• Acc. 1701 Ford Motor Company Parts Drawings
  •  box TX-1 through TX-137-G
    • SFA 1- RH-2L-H 6/14/1917 Sill Angle Iron
    • AR-82-34049 6/22/1917 Cowl Frame Repair
    • SFA-260 12/3/1918 Model T Ambulance Body Assy. - L.H. Side 
    • SFA-261 12/3/18 Sill and Floor Assembly 
    • SFA-263 12/3/1918 Division Panel Assembly 
    • SFA-264 12/3/1918 Roof Assembly 
    • SFA-265 12/3/1918 Tail Gate Assembly 
    • SAF-266 12/3/1918 Sectional View: Folding Seat, Litter Rigging and Litter Trolley System (Right Side)
    • SFA-267-262 12/3/1918 Side Frame Assembly - Left Side 
    • SFA-271-2 12/3/1918 Tool Box Assembly 
    • SFA-273-4/268-275 12/3/1918 Dispatch Box Assembly 
    • SFA-281-2 12/3/1918 Storm Curtains 
    • SFA-304 10/16/1918 Drive Shaft Extension Sleeve 
    • SFA-305 9/26/1918 Drive Shaft Extension Housing Support 
    • SFA-306 9/26/1918 Brake Rod Extension 
    • SFA-309 9/26/1918 Drive Shaft Extension Sleeve - Pin 
    • SFA-311 10/24/1918 Frame Extension - L.H. 
    • SFA-311 9/26/1918 Frame Extension - L.H. 
    • SFA-314 12/4/1918 Exhaust Pipe LH Control 
    • SFA-314 9/26/1918 Exhaust Pipe LH Control 
    • SFA-320 9/26/1918 Gasoline Tank Support Bolt 
    • SFA-323 10/5/1918 Brake Rod Support (Front) 
    • SK-SFA-339 Sketch Showing Dimensions on Model T chassis for body design  

Ford Times

• The Fords Behind the Firing Line, v. 8 n. 9, p.412-413

Oral Histories

• 65_149 William F. Pioch (p. 21)
• 65_136 James O’Connor (p. 33-34)
• 65_216 E. A. Walters (p. 69-70)

Vertical File

• World War I – Ambulances (includes manual for SFA ambulance, 1918)

Books

• Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914- September 1918. Arlen J. Hansen 
     940.54753 H249 1996
• Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance. Robert Whitney Imbrie 
     940.4753 I32 1918
• Ambulancing on the French Front. Edward Royal Coyle 
     940.4753 C881 1918
• An American Crusader at Verdun. Philip Sidney Rice 
     973.913 R497 1918
• "Ambulance 464" Encore des Blesses. Julien Hequembough Bryan 
     940.4753 B915 1918
• Diary of Section VIII, American Ambulance Field Service. American Field Service 
     940.4753 A512 1917
• At the Front in a Flivver. William Yorke Stevenson 
     940.4753 S848 1917
• With the American Ambulance Field Service in France. Leslie Buswell 
     940.4753 B982 1916
• Friends of France: The Field Service of the American Ambulance Described by its Members. 
     940.4753 F911 1916
• Ford in the Service of America: Mass Production for the Military During the World Wars. Timothy J. O'Callaghan 
     623.74 F699 O15 2009

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