One family's 97-year link with Rolls Royce armoured car, Sliabh na mBan 

Ben, I am not selling the book on Amazon, or anywhere else, so I don't know. All my books were sold etc by 2012. I have no plans to publish another version as it takes so much time and effort and distribution is very difficult and slow. However, you can read a copy in any decent reference library. If that is not possible or convenient your local library may be able to arrange an inter-library loan. Best wishes, Karl

Hi Scottish Bonsai. The Bovington Rolls-Royce armoured car (1920 pattern) served in Ireland with the British army's Royal Tank Corps' 5th Armoured Car Company (ACC) in 1921/'22. It was based in Scarborough in England until 1927. That year it was shipped to Shanghai where the turret was modified by adding a 'Top Hat' small turret on top to protect the commander's/gunner's head when he was looking out while under attack. The car served in Egypt from 1929-'32 but then was withdrawn from active service. It went back to England in 1939. It 1946 it was transferred to the museum in Bovington as an exhibit . With such an active 'career' in military service around the world the Bovington car was much modified. British Rolls-Royce armoured cars that fought in the desert in early WWII had much-modified turrets so they look different to the original 1920-pattern type turret in photos. Ireland's Rolls-Royce armoured car on the other hand is 100% ORIGINAL and served all its time in Ireland - much of it in the Irish Cavalry Corps' main base in the Curragh Camp. The turret-mounted spot light is the standard original light supplied in 1920 by Rolls-Royce. As far as I know the turret on the 1920-pattern cars was slightly higher than that on the 1914-pattern cars providing a bit more head room (but not much more). The car in the video herewith has been restored to the exact same standard as when it first left the Rolls-Royce factory in 1920. The Vickers gun can be (and has been) fired making the vehicle the oldest fully-working fighting machine in the world! My book 'Irish Army Vehicles - transport and armour since 1922' (ISBN 0-9543413-0-9) has several photos of the Rolls-Royce armoured cars in Irish service from 1922. The A4 hardback book was self-published in 2002 and is now out of print. However, you could check with your local library as several copies are in reference libraries in the UK (as well as in the New York Public Library) and you may be able to get to see a copy via an inter-library loan. I hope to make a more detailed RU-vid video on the Irish Rolls-Royce when I have gathered some more material. I hope the above is of interest/use. Thank you for your comments.

here is another view of the Rolls-Royce turret ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yFejuS8CubI.html

And here is a clip ( i minute 29 seconds into the video) of the car driving slowly past the camera such that you can see the turret from three different angles ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0u2VVSTLiPc.html

Yes, Scottish Bonsai. See more of an answer under your other comment

@@karlmartin2698 very cool having that i have only found one other photo of a 1914 roller with the brass spotlight seems to be quite rare iv went and scratch built a small replica one for my model

The Army did, and does still. The Lynch family were/are employees of the Army and/or Department of Defence. Paddy Lynch was originally an Irish Army Rolls Royce driver/mechanic and then armoured car Sgt/commander in the 1922 era. He then went on to work on the entire Rolls Royce armoured car fleet and, from the mid-1930s onwards, other more modern armoured vehicles in the newly formed Cavalry Workshops in the Curragh Camp. When his military service finished he was then employed as a civilian mechanic (later promoted to Works Foreman) until his retirement. A mixed staff of civilian and military work in the Workshops.