Cadillac Superior Ambulance 1:54 - n°437

Featuring Corgi’s innovative ‘Trans-O-Lite’ battery operated lighting system, all four corner roof lights of this wonderful die-cast Cadillac Superior Ambulance model illuminate, as well as the main emergency beacon. The first issue of the model, from 1962, had an ingenious but erratic switch on the rear axle, simulating ‘flashing’ emergency lights when the model was pushed along the floor. A follow up version from 1966 omitted the temperamental axle switch but retained the clever ‘Trans-O-Lite’ system. This is the version we have chosen to replicate. For British children in the 1960s, more used to traditional emergency vehicle marques such as Bedford and Austin, this streamlined Superior-bodied Cadillac Ambulance must’ve seemed like something from the future.