Roden 731 – Model Kit British Armoured Car Pattern 1920 MK I, Grey

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1:72 SCALE Armoured Car R-R Rolls-Royce LandShip kit 1920 Pattern Mk I 1:72 from Roden. From wikipedia.org The Rolls-Royce armoured car was a British armoured car developed in 1914 and used in World War I and in the early part of World War II. Production historyThe Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) raised the first British armoured car squadron during the First World War.[2] In September 1914 all available Rolls Royce Silver Ghost chassis were requisitioned to form the basis for the new armoured car. The following month a special committee of the Admiralty Air Department, among whom was Flight Commander T.G. Hetherington, designed the superstructure which consisted of armoured bodywork and a single fully rotating turret holding a regular water cooled Vickers machine .The first three vehicles were delivered on 3 December 1914, although by then the mobile period on the Western Front, where the primitive predecessors of the Rolls-Royce cars had served, had already come to an end.[2] Later in the war they served on several fronts of the Middle Eastern theatre.[3] Chassis production was suspended in 1917 to enable Rolls-Royce to concentrate on aero engines.[4]The vehicle was modernized in 1920 and in 1924, resulting in the Rolls-Royce 1920 Pattern and Rolls-Royce 1924 Pattern. In 1940, 34 vehicles which served in Egypt with the 11th Hussarsregiment had the "old" turret replaced with an open-topped unit carrying a Boys anti-tank , .303-inch Bren machine and smoke-grenade launchers.Some vehicles in Egypt and Iraq received new chassis from a Fordson truck and became known as Fordson Armoured Cars. Pictures [1] show them as equipped with what appear to be turrets fitted with a Boys ATR, a machine and twin light machine s for anti-aircraft defence.Combat historyA 1924 Pattern Rolls-Royce Armoured Car with a "new" open-topped turret in the Bardia area of theWestern Desert, 1940.Six RNAS Rolls-Royce squadrons were formed