Thread: Vale Phil the Greek

I wonder if this vehicle now shown as the Land Rover Prince Philip helped design to be used in the Funeral Procession is the same one as the Gun Bus mentioned last week? Maybe Foley just removed the Bus body and added a tub ? It seems from last week's photos the tub wasn't part of the Gun Bus.

Prince Philip helped design his specially commissioned Land Rover funeral hearse

Prince Philip helped design his specially commissioned Land Rover funeral hearse - ABC News

Here's what we know about the modified Land Rover hearse that the duke himself had a hand in designing over the period of nearly two decades.

It’s not the gun bus – it’s an electric hearse: Prince’s final transport revealed – Fieldsports Channel

According to this article, this is a fully electric 130 Land Rover hearse, that the Duke commissioned from Land Rover in 2003, with continuous updates since. So the Gun Bus is a separate project.

Originally Posted by jerryd

Just located this “image” of Prince Phillip in MG TC/1362
On April 23rd 2016 at the Chippenham Auction Rooms in London, a rare handwritten letter written in 1947 by the then 21 year old Princess Elizabeth,
was sold for US $20,880.00
It revealed how Prince Phillip’s MG TC, which he purchased on 25th September 1946, played a role in his courtship of the future queen.
The letter was sent to Betty Shew who was writing the official souvenir book called, “The Royal Wedding”.
In her letter Princess Elizabeth recalled how the young couple drove each other around London and were at one point even chased by photographers.
The princess remembered, “Philip enjoys driving and does it fast! He has his own tiny M.G. which he is very proud of - he has taken me about in it,
once up to London, which was great fun, only it was like sitting on the road, and the wheels are almost as high as one’s head."
"On one, and only one occasion, we were chased by a photographer which was disappointing.”
Sadly, there is no contemporary record of what may have happened to this black with green upholstery royal MG TC/1362
(registration plate XHD 99) or if it exists to this day.

untitled (goldcoastmgcarclub.com.au)

prince phillip and prince charles and their mgsHere’s a little info on Prince Philip’s TC:> Registration number – HXD 99> Purchased on 25th September 1946 – new> Colour – Black exterior w/green interior >Chassis number – TC1362, Engine number – XPAG 2024 > Production date 11-September-1946 > The car may not have survived as there is now no record of it.One report says that the Prince purchased the car new on 25-September-1946, and that it was sent for sale, to be traded for a TD, when the car was introduced shortly before his father-in-law, King George’s death on February 6, 1952.

Prince Philip's car becomes Sri Lankan royal artefact

Prince Philip's car becomes Sri Lankan royal artefact (bangkokpost.com)

COLOMBO: An almost 90-year-old car that once belonged to Britain's late Prince Philip is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka.

The Duke of Edinburgh, whose funeral will be on Saturday, was a car aficionado who bought the 1935 Standard Nine for 12 pounds when he was based in Colombo with the British Navy in 1940.

"When he came back in the early 1950s, he came and saw the car," said Sanjeev Gardiner, who has kept the vehicle at his Galle Face Hotel in Colombo.

"When he saw the car he said, 'I hope the brakes work. They didn’t work then."

Originally Posted by silicon_valley

It’s not the gun bus – it’s an electric hearse: Prince’s final transport revealed – Fieldsports Channel

According to this article, this is a fully electric 130 Land Rover hearse, that the Duke commissioned from Land Rover in 2003, with continuous updates since. So the Gun Bus is a separate project.

Should definitely be nice and quiet compared with the rattly TD5

Originally Posted by scarry

Should definitely be nice and quiet compared with the rattly TD5

He's dying to try it.

I guess it's one relic from the past, being carried by another.