Topic: Solved NIC#271 - Morris CS9 Armoured Car

[nicanary]

What is the base vehicle, and who is operating it? (NOT the driver's name!)

[nicanary]

Experts?

[D-type]

Rolls Royce  base armoured car.  Being operated by the Black and Tans.

[nicanary]

Rolls Royce  base armoured car.  Being operated by the Black and Tans.

Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid.

[D-type]

Are they perhaps Lanchester based? 
Manned by the Australian Army?

[nicanary]

Are they perhaps Lanchester based? 
Manned by the Australian Army?

Again, sorry. Not Lanchester, and much nearer to home.

[staulan]

Morris CS 9/LAC.

[nicanary]

Morris CS 9/LAC.

Yes, it is indeed a Morris CS9. LOCKED for you to solve which part of the British Armed Forces is operating the vehicle.

[staulan]

Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.

[nicanary]

Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.

Wow, you've been doing a lot of research. It's actually pictured in the UK during WW2 - so it's a home-based (that's a clue) military unit. Not one of the above, but an army unit based at HOME.

[nicanary]

Wikipedia claims 12th Royal Lancers in France and 11th Hussars in North Africa.

Staulan, I owe you a large and public apology. Another member of AP has contacted me to confirm your original solution - it's the 12th Royal Lancers in 1939/40, with the BEF in Northern France. My original image source claimed that the vehicles were being used by the Home Guard, but after I said you were wrong, I looked hard at the photo, and I must admit that the buildings looked a lot like they were French!

So a point to you, for good research and a correct answer.

(The British Expeditionary Force in France had the most inadequate equipment you can imagine - I don't think those armoured cars would have done too well against a Panzer division.)

[staulan]

Your manners impressed me. These are among the good thinks under constant modernity pressure and thet should not disappear.

[nicanary]

Your manners impressed me. These are among the good thinks under constant modernity pressure and thet should not disappear.

That's because I am not a young man - I was taught manners by my parents and tutors which now seem to have disappeared from most of society. I like to think that most members on Autopuzzles behave in a similar way.

I was wrong. You were owed an apology. Have a nice day.