What is the base vehicle, and who is operating it? (NOT the driver's name!)
Experts?
Rolls Royce base armoured car. Being operated by the Black and Tans.
Quote from: D-type on August 28, 2014, 08:16:10 AM
Rolls Royce base armoured car. Being operated by the Black and Tans.
Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid.
Are they perhaps Lanchester based?
Manned by the Australian Army?
Quote from: D-type on August 29, 2014, 05:52:58 AM
Are they perhaps Lanchester based?
Manned by the Australian Army?
Again, sorry. Not Lanchester, and much nearer to home.
Morris CS 9/LAC.
Quote from: staulan on August 30, 2014, 04:23:35 PM
Morris CS 9/LAC.
Yes, it is indeed a Morris CS9. LOCKED for you to solve which part of the British Armed Forces is operating the vehicle.
Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.
Quote from: staulan on September 02, 2014, 03:15:41 PM
Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.
Wow, you've been doing a lot of research. It's actually pictured in the UK during WW2 - so it's a home-based (that's a clue) military unit. Not one of the above, but an army unit based at HOME.
Quote from: staulan on September 02, 2014, 03:15:41 PM
Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.
Staulan, I owe you a large and public apology. Another member of AP has contacted me to confirm your original solution - it's the 12th Royal Lancers in 1939/40, with the BEF in Northern France. My original image source claimed that the vehicles were being used by the Home Guard, but after I said you were wrong, I looked hard at the photo, and I must admit that the buildings looked a lot like they were French!
So a point to you, for good research and a correct answer.
(The British Expeditionary Force in France had the most inadequate equipment you can imagine - I don't think those armoured cars would have done too well against a Panzer division.)
Your manners impressed me. These are among the good thinks under constant modernity pressure and thet should not disappear.
Quote from: staulan on September 07, 2014, 06:06:27 AM
Your manners impressed me. These are among the good thinks under constant modernity pressure and thet should not disappear.
That's because I am not a young man - I was taught manners by my parents and tutors which now seem to have disappeared from most of society. I like to think that most members on Autopuzzles behave in a similar way.
I was wrong. You were owed an apology. Have a nice day.