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[arttidesco]

 

Photo Copyright Geoffrey Horton

 

Rather than risk hijacking various other threads I thought it might be fun to start a thread on Rolls Royce Motor Car Applications, to set the ball rolling with this 1920's 40/50 which regular TNF readers some years ago helped me learn that this car was deployed as a fire engine from the 1930's to 1950's in Uppsala Sweden.

[f1steveuk]

I have a picture somewhere of the Rolls-Royce based armoured car that Sir Malcolm Campbell had built. I think there was finally seventeen, issued to the home guard.

[arttidesco]

I have a picture somewhere of the Rolls-Royce based armoured car that Sir Malcolm Campbell had built. I think there was finally seventeen, issued to the home guard.

 

Did it look anything like the one in this link ?

[Vitesse2]

During the Great War, Rolls Royce of course built many armoured cars themselves

 

When I worked for Dartington, one of the more eccentric resident potters - whose name I no longer recall - used a retired (and very battered} Rolls Royce hearse as his daily driver. Used to get some odd looks when people saw it parked up in the Cider Press Centre car park with a big lump of clay in the back! Not to mention when he was loading up his groceries outside Gateway ...

[f1steveuk]

Did it look anything like the one in this link ?

No, in comparision it looked quite good!!

[minime]

In the early 1970's I used to drive past a Roller in the suburbs of Melbourne that had been converted to a ute and it looked like it had had a very hard life.

[f1steveuk]

The Rolls-Royce hearse, the staple vehicle of bands on tour. Screaming Lord Sutch and his band had three!!

[Lee Nicolle]

In the early 1970's I used to drive past a Roller in the suburbs of Melbourne that had been converted to a ute and it looked like it had had a very hard life.

There is or was a cut down late 60s Rolls ute at Birdwood Mill museum. Brush painted at that.