What a great recovery truck

[ajc9415]

It would be a pleasure to get towed home by this vehicle!

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[Martin R]

Brilliant!

[Joerg]

Could be a long time to be recovered - imagine that thing towing 1.8 tons up hill

[VFK44]

Could be a long time to be recovered - imagine that thing towing 1.8 tons up hill

Slowly, but very, very quietly.

[Kevin Birch]

Probably a Phantom 1 conversion, so a 7.7 L engine, which wouldn't notice a 1.8 ton load on the back. I've been in Alan Jones' P1 and it is surprisingly quick off the block for 1920's car, and easliy keeps up with modern traffic. Quite a few early RRs were butchered into recovery trucks as their chassis and engines were very strong and ideal for the job.

[RAP72]

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even better

[Barrie]

Probably a Phantom 1 conversion, so a 7.7 L engine, which wouldn't notice a 1.8 ton load on the back. I've been in Alan Jones' P1 and it is surprisingly quick off the block for 1920's car, and easliy keeps up with modern traffic. Quite a few early RRs were butchered into recovery trucks as their chassis and engines were very strong and ideal for the job.

From my contact in Rolls Royce Enthusiasts' Club I understand that it is an 'Open prop-shaft Ghost of pre-1911' which I find staggering! The engine is 6 cylinder but only 7 litres which is smaller than the. Phantom's 7.7 but still able to do the job despite having only about 50bhp.
I thought it was a 20/25 so you were closer than I was Kevin.

[Barrie]

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Clearer picture here.

[VFK44]

"The garage was founded to pull broken down vehicles off the new Kingston bypass during the 1920s and '30s.
Later known as the Berry & Co Garage, during the 1950s it did a fine trade in the new, sleeker models of cars."

- Merton Memories Photographic Archive

[RockyUSA]

Supposedly (according to Lowell Thomas), TE Lawrence wanted the armored RR that he drove around in Arabia, unfortunately, it was modified into a touring car and given to General Allenby.

That’s too bad, but I guess he got a powerful motorcycle...

I’ll try and get more details....

Rocky.

[Barrie]

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Here’s the man himself looking very much like Peter O‘Toole

[RockyUSA]

You provided much more information than I gleaned from the book, "With Lawrence in Arabia" (1924 - by Lowell Thomas), but that was the car he told Lowell Thomas he wanted if he could have anything for his services to the Crown.

I'll try and get a picture of the last couple of paragraphs of the book - he specifically discusses the Blue Mist.

Very cool - Thanks -

Rocky

[RockyUSA]

Here's the passages from "With Lawrence In Arabia" by Lowell Thomas.

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[VFK44]

Different times, and a different definition of "how human and simple" he was. Perhaps he didn't mention the small estate with no more than a couple of servants!

[John Staddon]

They were different times, my great grandfather employed a servant (according to the 1911 census), he was also one of the first people in his town (Sunderland) to own a motor car, and though he didn't own an estate he did own the freehold of several streets in Sunderland, so must have bought the land at some point.

But this is a description of the childhood home of the Hon. Rosemary Laycock, who in later years, as the Hon. Mrs Arthur Baillie, bought C-V8 112/2492 (from her entry in my 'C-V8 first owners' project)

Rosemary Laycock was born in 1905 in Westminster, eldest daughter of Brigadier General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock, KCMG, DSO, and Katherine, daughter of the Hon. Hugh Henry Ware. A glimpse of Rosemary’s upbringing can be found in the 1911 census when she is five years old and her family are living in a 62 room house with a Private Secretary, three nurses (domestic), two footmen, a chef (a Frenchman of course, Louis Jean Baptiste Chateauvert), three kitchen maids, three housemaids and three stillroom maids (though it is a quirk of the census methods that finds Rosemary and her four siblings on their own, apart from that small army of servants, on the night of the census when the Brigadier and his wife are not at home).

That's posh!

John