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The Rolls-Royce armoured car is a British armoured car developed in 1914 and used during the First World War, Irish Civil War, the inter-war period in Imperial Air Control in Transjordan, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and in the early stages of the Second World War in the Middle East and North Africa.
By the time Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars arrived in December 1914, the mobile period on the Western Front was already over. [ 23 ] More tactically important was the development of formed units of armored cars, such as the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade , which was the first fully mechanized unit in the history.
The Lanchester was a turreted armoured car, built on the chassis of a Lanchester Sporting Forty luxury tourer.The layout of the Lanchester was similar to the Rolls-Royce, with a front mounted engine, crew compartment in the middle and rear cargo deck; the fighting compartment and turret was almost identical to the Rolls-Royce.
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The division also received a Light Armoured Car Battery equipped with six Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars. [81] The training covered topics such as how to cross trench systems using mobile bridging equipment, tactics to employ against an entrenched enemy, blowing up and filling in trenches, and skill at arms, including machine guns and bayonet fighting.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost name refers both to a car model and one specific car from that series. Originally named the " 40/50 h.p. " the chassis was first made at Royce's Manchester works, with production moving to Derby in July 1908, and also, between 1921 and 1926, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA .
Established with 60 fighting vehicles in September 1914, 18 x Rolls Royce, 21 x Clement-Talbot and 21 Wolsey armoured cars supported by 40 non-fighting vehicles, 4 x Wolsey ambulances, 8 x cars to carry spare parts, 8 x general service cars and 20 lorries it had its headquarters in 48 Dover Street, London and Depot at Wormwood Scrubs.
The original first Admiralty pattern Talbots were very similar to the first Admiralty pattern Wolseley and Rolls-Royce armoured cars. [3] Weighing around 4 long tons (4.1 t) these vehicles were fitted with armoured plates 8 mm (0.31 in) thick that covered the sides and top of the engine and extending along the sides at dashboard height; they had an open rear fighting compartment in which crew ...