Would someone please help me identify the tenders for the Rolls Royce armored cars in these images?
I think the first is a Fordson tender converted from an RR armored car, but I have only a faint idea of the other two. Thank you for any help you can provide.
Mark
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Welcome Mark. I look forward to seeing some answers from the hive.
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I believe @HeadMoth1 is referencing the supply and support vehicles assigned to the units using the RR armored cars.
This article refers to typical makes of light truck used at the time- Morris, Oxford, Crossley etc. I’m not very knowledgeable on the subject I’m afraid but maybe the article will give you some info or perhaps another member of the site will know more.
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The first, I believe, is a Commer Raider with a non-standard radiator.
The middle vehicle is a Fordson Armoured Car. Basically a Rolls Royce Armoured car fitted onto a Fordson Chassis. The Fighting Fordsons
The third one is the Fordson 79 truck 30cwt 4x2. Officially known as Armed Tender Type F. It was based on a radio truck.
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H.P.
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According to some posts in these threads :
https://hmvf.co.uk/topic/8347-rolls-royce-armoured-car/page/3/
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4991&page=8
the first one should be “a re-bodied Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.”
EDIT : there’s even a 3D-printed model available…in 1/144th scale 
https://rayrimesdesigns.com/shop/ols/products/raf-armed-tenders-rolls-royce-fordson
A 1/72nd scale “solid” model is also available
H.P.
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The tender in the first image is a Roll Royce (with an ex-aircraft scarfe ring). The RAF used a variety of vehicles as tenders and that included several built on RR chassis - not a conversion but built from the chassis up…
The armoured cars in the first image look like 1914 Pattern bodies, but transferred to more modern RR chassis. This was normal practice. When the chassis wore out, new RR chassis were purchased through local dealers and the armoured body transplanted to it. Thus an RRAC body could have been fitted to multiple RR chassis during its lifetime. The photo will be circa 1930-35ish
Second photo shows a pair of Fordson armoured cars. There were only 20 and all belonged to No.2 ACC, They were converted in local workshops (in Palestine?) 1940.so that dates the image reasonably well. The tender in the background has a Fordson look about it and the RAF ACCs were using them as tenders by the late 1930s but I can’t be sure.
Nigel Warwick’s book ‘In Every Place - RAF Armoured cars in the Middle East 1921-1953’ provides a good summary of the vehicles used by each ACC at various times from 1920-1945
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Thank you Everyone for your help. I certainly learned a lot from your posts and the links to “Forum strings” that you gave me. I was closing in on the tender in the image to the far left as a converted RR armored car on an either a Fordson or RR chassis. I learned that “Fordson” started as a project of Ford motor USA to make farm tractors and developed into an arm of UK Ford that focused on making trucks. Some of these were built in the USA and shipped world wide. I thought that might explain why the tender in the central image seems to have the scarf ring above the drivers seat (?). It might a USA built left-hand drive truck, so the scarf ring is above the passenger seat. The final image is also a Ford truck. Looks like a 1938, known as a Ford(son) 97 (I think)…
Thanks very much again.
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