Ambulances

We've been puzzled for awhile about ambulances.  When we first came to India, nary an ambulance was in sight let alone sirens.  Then about 10 months ago the government began to populate the city with ambulances, and there were sirens aplenty.  The ambulances were from a family of vehicles known as a Tempo Traveller - about as big as ambulances in the USA.  However, recently we have been seeing little ambulances scurrying about.  Digression: a bunch of years ago, Dodge marketed a little van called an Omni; these ambulances were from the Asian lineage of the Dodge Omni.  EndDigression.

Well today the confusion was cleared up, it was not an ambulance we were seeing, but rather an ambulette.  Now, I'm not entirely positive that it was named for its size - it could be a gender thing, but it certainly was a petite ambul.