Today.
Spotted at Collins Barracks, Cork.
A yellow 1919 Rolls Royce, known as The Moon Car, used by the 1st Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army as an improvised armoured car between 1920 and 1924.
News Punt writez:
“It had just been donated by somebody. Don’t know who donated it. It’s taxed and comes with a machine gun.”
Anyone?
Related: The Story of the Moon Car (Death on the Pier)
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ideal for the M50 rush-hour.
‘…when Ireland gets her freedom*
You’ll get your motor car…’
*coming soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2wAudQh8Q
Magic.. Lewis gun included
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Is that not Collins Barracks in Dublin? The poster behind the car is for the Decorative Arts and History museum. https://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Arts-History
Kindly donated by Pat McSweeney, Manch, West Cork. He’s got quite the collection.
https://www.westcorkpeople.ie/features/a-vintage-affair/
1924?