437 - Superior Ambulance on Cadillac Chassis in red and cream livery


£35.99

When introduced by Corgi in October 1962 this striking American ambulance featured an infamously erratic mechanism on the model’s rear axle to switch the rooftop bulb on and off, thus simulating a flashing emergency light. It was one of the few Corgi innovations of the era that failed to live up to expectations and was eventually replaced in 1966 by a simpler battery operated circuit that powered a flashing bulb*.

This Corgi Model Club edition marries the red and cream livery of the earlier model with the circuitry of the later variant. Both were given Corgi’s patented ‘Trans-O-Lite’ system whereby light from the bulb illuminated the model’s front and rear roof lights. Corgi sold over one million of the red liveried version of Corgi 437.

*Sadly these specialist bulbs, which incorporate a bi-metal strip to make it flash on and off, are sadly no longer available in the size needed.

Size: Length: 115mm Width: 40mm Height: 45mm

Scale: 1:54

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Customer Reviews

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Mark

Owned a number of originals but this reproduction is superb! Hopefully we will see the blue version one day please Corgi Model Club?

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Michael Nichelmann
Wonderful model

Today I also received the replica of the red and cream livery Superior Ambulance from 1962.
A very nice model, as is the white and blue Ambulance replica from 1966.
I'm a little sad that neither model has a flashing light function.
A red rotating beacon would have been nice, too.
White is unrealistic.
But: "Better than nothing."
I had the original models when I was a little boy (born 1962)
Greetings from Germany.

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M.H.

The model arrived quickly in secure protective packaging. It is convincing replica of the original 1960s Corgi Toy. The battery box takes a single AA battery and a simple switch lights up the central dome light and 4 corner lights which collect light by coloured plastic tubes……the equivalent of today’s optical fibre. The original toy had flashing lights and from my stash of 1960s bulbs I replaced the non flashing one in the model. These bulbs are old technology and nobody makes them in the 2020s. A keen modeller could easily hook up a clear flashing LED to achieve a 2025 flash effect. There is a video of my model with flashing lights on the Corgi Model Club Facebook group.

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Michael

Very good I would recommend anyone to buy one.

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David

Great model, very pleased with it.

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