The handing over of the ambulance donated by twenty women from Reading, Pennsylvania, to the Mayor of Reading, Councillor W. E. C. McIlroy, on behalf of The American Ambulance, Great Britain, in 1940. The Mayor shakes hands with a representative of the Allied Relief Fund. The Deputy Mayor, Alderman Mrs. Alice Jenkins, stands with the Mace-bearer. The twenty women of Reading, England, known as "the godmothers, " who are to look after the ambulance during its service in this country, look on. Some of the windows of the Town Hall have tape across them to prevent flying glass in the case of a bomb blast. 1940-1949 : photograph by the Sport and General Press Agency, No. 615614
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black and white photograph ; 14 x 19 cm.
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