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furnished with rubber pads or other means of protection, installed at a location that will prevent
damage to body sides and rear doors when doors are fully opened. The interior of the upper door
frame shall be padded to prevent head injury to personnel. Two red reflectors of three-inch
minimum diameter shall be installed, one on the interior surface of each rear door. The reflectors
shall be so positioned as to provide maximum visibility when the doors are in the fully open
position. At the manufacturer's option, reflective tape, dark red, conforming to L-S-300, type I,
class 3, reflectivity 1, may be furnished. The tape shall be four inches wide and shall extend the
full width of each rear door panel.
3.5.5 Side windows. A minimum of two safety glass side windows shall be provided in
the patient compartment. Each window shall have not less than 250 square inches of visual area.
Not less than one side window on each side of the vehicle shall be provided with a means for
retaining in the open position and for locking in the closed position.
3.5.6 Side doors. Side doors are not required. When side doors are furnished, doors
shall be permanently secured in the locked position, metal panels shall be furnished in lieu of door
windows, and door operating handles shall be removed and openings sealed with metal blanks or
other suitable means. Interior paneling shall be furnished along the complete curbside of the
patient compartment.
3.6 Equipment and furnishings. The patient compartment shall be of a size to
accommodate four stretcher patients using the cots and litters specified in 3.6.1 and under the
conditions specified herein. The loadspace (measured at the floor level, from the vertical
projection of the driver and passenger seat, in the rearmost position, to the rear door) shall be not
less than 110 inches; the height (at the centerline of the floor, midway of the roof section) shall be
not less than 52 inches; and the minimum distance between wheelhousings shall provide clearance
for separately loading two Navy stokes litters under all of the following conditions:
(a)
With a patient weighing not less than 176 pounds in each litter
(b)
Without distorting either litter before or during loading
(c)
Without pressure against the side walls of the wheelhousing or adjoining litter
(d)
By placing the head end of each litter on the floor of the patient transport vehicle at
the rear entrance, and sliding each litter into position with a steady forward motion
(e) While maintaining a level lateral position of each litter during loading operation
(f) With each litter resting in a loaded position on the floor without cocking.
3.6.1 Stretchers, cots and litters. The vehicle shall be capable of accommodating all the
stretchers, cots, and litters through the range of dimensions specified in table II. When specified
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