Attempting a new view every week or so from Scandinavia
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Hudik
Hudiksvall is a small fishing port on the east coast. We stopped here for a meal and saw this green van with the words: the salmon ambulance written on the side. Why?
So this would be a lime ambulance for poorly citrus fruit?
Ambulance is of course an archaic misnomer. As its name would indicate an ambulance is a mechanism to enable those incapable of locomotion to be walked to a medical centre at a steady amble. e.g. a long thin handcart somewhat like a stretcher on wheels. Many towns and cities had these ambulatory devices distributed around municipal areas chained to an ambulance station which was frequently a water pump or bollard. Now they go much faster without plod power they can no longer properly be called ambulances.
Hudiksvall is a small fishing port on the east coast.
5 comments:
Salmon get sick - just like you and me:)
I thought salmons were always in the pink?
So this would be a lime ambulance for poorly citrus fruit?
Ambulance is of course an archaic misnomer. As its name would indicate an ambulance is a mechanism to enable those incapable of locomotion to be walked to a medical centre at a steady amble. e.g. a long thin handcart somewhat like a stretcher on wheels. Many towns and cities had these ambulatory devices distributed around municipal areas chained to an ambulance station which was frequently a water pump or bollard. Now they go much faster without plod power they can no longer properly be called ambulances.
Tee Hee!
That explains it.
The text on the side reads:
Laxambulansen
I thought it was Swedish, but really it's English and means:
Lazy ambulance.
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