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Thank's Gerrit, I have seen it somewhere as another collector posted it onto a forum, can not remember who or where, was it you on 'PD' perhaps!

This was the garage where at least one of the Armoured Cars for the Lawrence of Arabia film came from, absolutely fascinating place and would loved to have been around when it was still in use and gone to visit them. A bit of research would be able to tell us if all the cars still exist, especially the Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but I am no longer a member of the RREC so have no access to their chassis registers. The Two cars built up to represent the Armoured Cars in the Arabia film do survive in fully rebuilt and restored condition.

Ghosthunter.

This YT film shows that both LoA armoured cars plus the tourer came from the Jack O'Lantern/Jam factory garage guys.
Also the story of chassis 1701 the original London-Edinburgh-Brooklands/Hives car is remarkable.

Ecclesley wrote:This YT film shows that both LoA armoured cars plus the tourer came from the Jack O'Lantern/Jam factory garage guys.
Also the story of chassis 1701 the original London-Edinburgh-Brooklands/Hives car is remarkable.

I couldn't remember if it was all cars, but knew it was at least one of them. 1701 could fill a book on it's own...

Ghosthunter.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote: 1701 could fill a book on it's own...

Ghosthunter.

Like this one

Here is my example of the new Phantom III.
First impressions suggest this is a very good model, especially for the £20-£22 asking price at toy fairs. This is a very welcome addition to my collection.

Ghosthunter.

Kevin, would the hubs have been the same colour as the body work on the real vehicle. To me it is crying out for wire wheels.

Hi Alex.

With the default colour of gloss Black your hubs are the same colour as the main body. A customer could choose an alternative colour but usually did not but if the car was in a Two-Tone colour your hubs would be one of the colours, so if it was Silver-Grey top half of car, Maroon bottom half of car, your hubs would be in the Silver-Grey.

Your hubs are in fact metal discs covering the wheels, so behind those discs are your wire wheels and many cars restored in America have them Chrome plated and leave the discs off them.

Ghosthunter.

That's a very handsome looking model Ghosty, I quite like the matching colour on the wheel covers. I suppose if you were feeling brave you could have a set of white walls fitted.

johnboy wrote:That's a very handsome looking model Ghosty, I quite like the matching colour on the wheel covers. I suppose if you were feeling brave you could have a set of white walls fitted.

Yes you could in theory and Two ways of doing this...
1, Put some wheels on it from another model.
2, Put some White-Wall decals on the wheels.

Putting on wheels from another model is not as easy as it sounds. Not many models have wheels of the right size for a Phantom III which should be a scale 18 inch rim size. When I researched this some Years ago looking for the correct size wheels, 'RIO' had White-Walled wheels on their models but of the wrong size. 'SOLIDO' also used White-Walled wheels on their models and they actually made their own Phantom III with the wrong sized wheels at first, but then later versions had slightly smaller wheels that could be used for fitting onto a model Phantom III.

Decals come on a sheet with varying sizes and hopefully one of the right size for a Phantom III.

Ghosthunter.

Sorry Ghosty, my fault. I didn't phrase my message well or I left out something, I was thinking more about having white walls on a 1:1 (not changing the wheels on yours). It looks great as it is.