Callsign was "Sama Wetterau 42" 41-49 was the acronym for an emergency ambulance type C as it also tells you by the inscription "Rettungswagen" later after the change of the system "83 and 84" stands for type C were as "85-89" as the first 2 digts symbolizes that it belongs to the ASB organisation eg "85/83" would be 1amb.st,1 emer.amb."84/84" would 2amb.st, second of the 2 emerg amb. there....(more than 2 emerg.amb per st would be unusal if so the first 2 digits would be counted onwards so "84/84" could rarely also be 1.amb st 4 emerg amb (this is the callsystem in the state of hessia,other states have differnt ones ! to complicate it ! the so called federal system applies only to NRW,BW,RP,HB,SH and the 5 eastern states,Berlin,Hamburg,Hessia,Lower Saxony,Bavaria,+Saarland stickto their older systems,so eg "71"is an emerg.amb in Bavaria but in Lower Saxony it would be a "41" quite puzzeling !
Added by Andreas Hasselmann on 08 April 2009.