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A 1920 pattern Rolls-Royce armoured car is displayed in sand colour at the RAF Regiment Heritage Centre at RAF Honington. It had previously been on display at the RAF Museum at Hendon . The armour is a facsimile of the original, built on an original Rolls-Royce chassis in the 1960s.
The Silver Ghost was the origin of Rolls-Royce's claim of making the "best car in the world" – a phrase coined not by themselves, but by the prestigious publication Autocar in 1907. [3] The chassis and engine were also used as the basis of a range of Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars.
Four-wheel brakes with mechanical servo were introduced in 1925. The famous Rolls-Royce radiator with triangular top was fitted, and early examples had enamel-finished horizontal slats, later changing to a nickel finish and finally becoming vertical. In 1920 a chassis cost £1100 with, typically, a complete tourer-bodied car costing around £1600.
These vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Naval Armoured Car Division armoured cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915. [3] In addition to the Rolls-Royce armoured cars, the company had two ancient tanks, named "Walrus" and "Seal." [4] The company was organised into a headquarters and three sections.
While attached to the Cheshire Yeomanry, he developed a prototype Rolls-Royce armoured car for use in France and Egypt. The Duke commanded the armoured cars of the regiment during their 1916 campaign in Egypt as part of the Western Frontier Force under General William Peyton.
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.
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