The present war is the first occasion upon which field motor ambulances have been put into service on a large scale, and consequently it is inevitable that experience will indicate possible improvements from an engineering and a medical standpoint. Mr. Henry 8. Wellcome, the founder of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, believing that it is more likely that valuable ideas and inventions will be forthcoming this juncture than under normal conditions, has intimated that the Bureau will provide a sum of £2,000 as prizes for the best plans and designs. of a body for, and improvements in, field motor am-balances. The control and distribation of this sum is in the hands of s responsible and representative termed "The Ambulance Construction Commission," which will collect, judge and report upon plans, designs and ideas' submitted to it. The functions of the Commission are of an international character in order that it may obtain information from all sources.
Apart from the prizes no payment will be made for the designs, but arrangements will be made which will enable the Government and ambulance associations to test and at once utilize any idea or invention upon which the Commission may report favourably.
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