Surviving British and US early armoured Cars (from WW1 to the 1930s) Last update : 17 November 2016 Listed here are the British and American early armoured cars (from 1914 to the 1930s) that still exist today. “Megashorts”, April 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3469019760/in/set-72157609057315170/ Peerless Armoured Car – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) “vintary”, December 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintary/4228029692/in/set-72157623099527804/ Peerless Armoured Car – Irish Defences Forces Training Centre, Curragh Camp, The Curragh (Ireland) “Megashorts”, June 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3672621518/in/set-72157609057315170/ Rolls-Royce Armoured Car (1920 Pattern) – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) – running c. http://www.milweb.net/webverts/54204/ Rolls Royce Armoured Car (RR AC original chassis with replica armoured body) “AAR1 Danny Boy / Tom Keogh” – Private collection (UK) This is one of the 13 Rolls Royce armoured cars given to the Irish Free State government by the British government to fight the Irish Republican Army in the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) (Wikipedia). It was bought in an auction without its armoured body (to decommission the vehicle), so the body was completely reproduced with aluminium, instead of armour plate (http://www.rolls-royce101wo.net/) ”Paul”, January 2009 - http://picasaweb.google.com/trpsarge/CurraghTrip27thMay2008#5340542081523536546 Rolls Royce Armoured Car (1920 pattern) “AAR2 Sliabh na mBan” Irish Defences Forces Training Centre, Curragh Camp, The Curragh (Ireland) This vehicle is the ARR-2 “Sliabh na mBan”, which is generally accepted to be the car that was accompanying IRA Leader Michael Collins on the day he was killed. This is one of only two still running today, and is regularly aired during parades and open days, often driving under its own power (Wikipedia) See also : http://www.esatclear.ie/~curragh/sliabh_na_mban.htm “rahul m”, November 2010 - http://picasaweb.google.com/113353781365135287048/CavalryTankMuseumMIRCAhmednagar# Rolls Royce Armoured Car Armoured Corps Museum, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra (India) Massimo Foti, July 2009 Lancia Triota – Museo della Motorizz. Militare della Cecchignola, Rome (Italy) The vehicle belongs to the IVECO company (the company which built Centauro, Lince, Freccia and other modern armoured vehicles) and it's on loan to the Museum (Massimo Foti) “vintary”, January 2010 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintary/4261620933/in/set-72157623099527804/ Lancia Triota – Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland) http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11503&start=30 Lancia Triota – Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood (Northern Ireland) Marius van Aardt - http://www.warwheels.net/CrossleyM1923IndianVANAARDT.html Crossley M1923 Indian Pattern Armoured Car – National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) “Megashorts”, April 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3425084356/in/set-72157609057315170/ Crossley-Chevrolet M1939 Indian Pattern – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) These were Crossley Armored Cars refurbished in 1939 by Chevrolet (http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/India/India.html) “Megashorts”, November 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3055840575/in/set-72157609057315170/ Crossley Armoured Car Mk I – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) ”Megashorts”, April 2009 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3425084380/in/set-72157609057315170/ Lanchester Armoured Car Mk II – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) Don Allen - http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu336/8Hussar/Great%20War%20AFVs/Armoured%20Autocar/ Canadian Autocar Machinegun Carrier – Canadian War Museum, Ottawa (Canada) Mathieu George, 2007 Rolls-Royce Armoured Car chassis – Cité de l'automobile (Collection Schlumpf), Mulhouse (France) The museum’s sign indicates that this chassis is from a Rolls-Royce Armoured Car (Mathieu George) http://www.rafregiment.net/RAF_Regt_Museum.htm Rolls-Royce Armoured Car reproduction – The Royal Air Force Regiment Museum RAF Regiment Depot RAF Honington (UK) The RAF replica is suppose to have been built on an armoured car chassis (Neal Gunderson) “normko”, June 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/normko/2602223188/in/set-72157605735815662/ Rolls Royce Armrd Car reproduction – The Honourable Artillery Company, London (UK) http://www.cfgphoto.com/img828.htm Rolls-Royce Armoured Car reproduction – Private Collection (New Zealand) “petaanneb”, March 2010 - http://picasaweb.google.com/petabeavis/EgyptJordan20104#5451170358446717794 Rolls Royce Armrd Car reproduction – The Royal Automobile Museum, Amman (Jordan) According to the museum’s website, “The armored vehicle exhibited is a replica of the original. It was specially manufactured for the Jordanian Army for the 60th anniversary of the Independence of Jordan and led the Military Parade in June 2006” “DKG”, October 2008 - http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/pre-1950/37279-rolls-royces-india-60.html Baxter Armoured Car – Unknown location (India) They were a series of donated vehicles converted to armoured cars using kits provided by Baxter of Talbot-Baxter fame (“JimWeb”)