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1949: Scotland's AIR AMBULANCE Service | Newsreel | Retro Transport | BBC Archive
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5:05Now PlayingTelevision Newsreel reports from Renfrew Aerodrome, the headquarters of an air ambulance service that serves the Western Isles of Scotland. The report follows the air ambulance crew taking to the skies in their De Havilland D.H. 89 Dragon Rapide, in response to a call from the remote Outer Hebridean island of Barra.
Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 5 January, 1949.
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