Rolls-Royce Armoured Car Lecture, London. Next week
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:10 pm
In case anyone is interested, my friend Jim Stejskal is going to be giving the Lunch Lecture at the National Portrait Gallery in London next Thursday. I'll be there as the official horse-holder and to answer any questions about Rolls-Royce and the technology behind the armoured cars.
This lecture is to promote Jim's latest book "Masters of Mayhem" about how Lawrence and his team of officers and Arab leaders pioneered what would later be termed "Combined Operations." While most view "Combined Operations" as a WW2 invention, the British in the Hejaz were combining naval forces, airpower, armoured cavalry, horse/camel cavalry, artillery support, infantry and guerrilla warfare in their campaign to isolate, bleed and, eventually drive out, the Ottoman Turks.
Jim is a fantastic speaker and his lecture includes a lot of unpublished pictures of Armoured Car Squadrons and is going to be a very worthwhile talk.
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-ro ... e-20092018
Again, hope to see some of the Armortek tribe attending! Jim will be signing books, too. I highly-recommend his new one!
Cheers,
RPR
P.S. Thanks, Kian, for letting me post this! See you at the T.E. Lawrence Symposium in Oxford in just over a week! The Armoured car model will be a huge hit!
This lecture is to promote Jim's latest book "Masters of Mayhem" about how Lawrence and his team of officers and Arab leaders pioneered what would later be termed "Combined Operations." While most view "Combined Operations" as a WW2 invention, the British in the Hejaz were combining naval forces, airpower, armoured cavalry, horse/camel cavalry, artillery support, infantry and guerrilla warfare in their campaign to isolate, bleed and, eventually drive out, the Ottoman Turks.
Jim is a fantastic speaker and his lecture includes a lot of unpublished pictures of Armoured Car Squadrons and is going to be a very worthwhile talk.
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-ro ... e-20092018
Again, hope to see some of the Armortek tribe attending! Jim will be signing books, too. I highly-recommend his new one!
Cheers,
RPR
P.S. Thanks, Kian, for letting me post this! See you at the T.E. Lawrence Symposium in Oxford in just over a week! The Armoured car model will be a huge hit!