What type of vehicle and unit ?

[battle of loos]

Good evening,

 

I would like to know more about this type of ambulance :

 

 

Can the markings indicate the unit of belonging?

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Michel

[michaeldr]

I wonder if it's American?

This photograph is of a similar vehicle also bearing a "SSA" number

[michaeldr]

see also http://www.ourstory.info/2/b/medal.html

quote - The AFS units were originally called Section(s) Sanitaire Americaine (SSA) 

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Edit to add:

A slightly different explanation for SSA is given here
https://www.horizon14-18.eu/abrv-militaires.html

quote: 
SSA = Section Sanitaire Automobile
SSAA = Section Sanitaire Automobile Anglaise
SSU = Section Sanitaire Automobile Américaine

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Edit No.2

A further explanation is offered by this document (see http://www.ourstory.info/2/a/SSUs.html#n1)

 

I. Each of these organizations will form one or many sections of a variable number of cars (ambulances); such number not being able to be less than 6 nor more than 30.

These sections will be numbered:

French Red Cross: S.S.F.1, S.S.F.2., etc.........
British Red Cross and Friends Ambulance: S.S.A.11, S.S.A. 12., etc.......
Ambulance of the American Hospital of Neuilly: S.S.U.1, S.S.U.2,

Edited 4 August , 2018 by michaeldr

[MikeyH]

Michel,

 

Think the vehicle is based on a British chassis, the wire wheels look like 'Riley Detachable Pattern'.

Can't see the radiator clearly, but Daimler a possibility?

 

Mike.

[MBrockway]

Probably worth having a look at this booklet at the IWM:

SSA 14 Section Sanitaire Anglaise Quatorze 1915-1919

 

IIRC, SSA 14 was one of the British Friends Ambulance Unit sections.

 

Mark

 

[MBrockway]

 

Society of Friends Ambulance Unit SSA 14 at Dunkirk in 1916.

 

Note the ambulance on the LHS marked "SSA 14 No 7    46526"

 

Source: Quaker Strongroom  (Library reference: TEMP MSS 881/PHOT/SSA14/1/5)

 

 

 

 

[battle of loos]

good Morning,

 

This is what we call research.
It's more than perfect.

 

the sopwitch picture wthis the ambulance picture come frome the same album.

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/263217-sopwith/

 

2 picture in the same aera : Coudekerque & Dunkerque.

 

it's maybe the same photographer.

 

regards

 

michel