RAF vehicles

[ted angus]

Bill, I believe the question was refering to the ARMED TENDERS not the armoured cars ; The Armed Tenders acted as the support vehicles to the armoured car patrols, some of which lasted several weeks especially in Trans Jordan Iraq etc. Firstly were the Rolls Royce versions as in Leon's post containing the request, Then there were some on Morris chassis followed by Commer Raiders and finally the Fordson 79s. Before any of the RAF's Armoured cars were fitted with wireless sets some of the Armed Tenders were converted to wireless tenders.
Turning to the Armoured cars, The RAF appear to have used all the versions used by both the RN & Army plus a number manufactured at No 1 supply depot RAF Kidbrooke that appear to be unique to the RAF. The RRs of No 2 ACC were remounted on to Ford commercial chassis in early 1940 under contract at the Thomas Cook garage in Cairo.
These pictures are all downloadable from The National Congress Library in USA search under Palestine some cracking RAF & Army shots. Many of these have now been uploaded to FlickR and last month there was an article containing some of these pictures and a potted political history of the times in Classic Military Magazine.
Regards TED