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Made for Movie Rolls-Royce Armoured Car

Made for Movie Rolls-Royce Armoured Car in Gandhi, Movie, 1982 IMDB

Class: Others, Military armored vehicle

Made for Movie Rolls-Royce Armoured Car

[*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Comments about this vehicle

AuthorMessage

johnfromstaffs EN

2008-06-27 19:19

Looks like a Rolls-Royce 40/50 to me.

chris40 UK

2008-06-27 19:38

What bothers me are the road wheels, which have a Ford or GM look to me. I'm wondering if it's a made for movie. This photo was taken in Egypt in 1940, and shows the pattern of road wheels worn by RR armoured cars in later life:
Link to "upload.wikimedia.org"

Sunbar UK

2008-06-27 20:01

.. agreed also the considerable extra weight of the armour forced the use of double rear wheels on the actual armoured cars but not seen in this example.

Restored example.
[Image: cap023xz4.1250.jpg]

Another period photograph.
[Image: cap025hs5.th.jpg]

johnfromstaffs EN

2008-06-27 20:38

I only said it looked like a R-R 40/50

Sunbar UK

2008-06-27 22:03

... No problem. :) You're right of course, john from staffs. Most of the details show they have followed the design of the R-R Armoured car so it is almost certainly a made-for-movie replica based on another chassis. If it is a Ford or GM chassis, I cannot confirm it personally.

-- Last edit: 2008-06-27 22:04:08

jmw_48 EN

2008-07-13 13:29

The armoured car body was built specially for the film on a RR Phantom II chassis 74GY, the wheels on the car at the time were truck wheels. I recently talked to the driver of the car (who is a friend and also was driving the Ariel 350cc motorcycle in front of the Buick later in the film) and he said it was running using a jerry can and plastic pipe with a clip, when the carburetor overflowed he'd tighten the clip (sticking float,worn needle seat etc.) The guy in the turret was standing with one foot on his shoulders... The car had no floor boards at the time. The cars is still in India. As our resident RR expert Park Ward says the Silver Ghost is 23 TG Hooper. The Buick 90(thank you Pilou) is in New Delhi still. I completely rebuilt the engine in 1987 there.

-- Last edit: 2014-05-12 20:40:47

Neptune US

2008-10-14 15:10

Changed main capture with vilero’s main capture (it’s the same as the old main capture, but in better quality)

jmw_48 EN

2008-11-11 12:41

Here is a photo taken from inside the armoured car during the shooting of the film, you can see the igniton switch on the steering column (wires to twist together).
[Image: rrarmouredinteriorwd5.5839.jpg]

Pierre EN

2016-05-09 14:18

The inside out spare accentuates the WWI integrity of the chassis, Chris40(!)
Happen it's the attention to detail Jawaharial Nehru should have warned Sir Dickie about. I know replication is easier today but I think they could have prepared something more convincing in a major production.

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