Are from driving license, license plate and passport are issued in her own name, Queen Elizabeth II does not need them to drive and travel. She started combining the two right before she was 19, join Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) transport division in 1945 to train vehicle mechanics. She wants to help the British effort during the Second World War and will drive an ambulance – she could theoretically also fix it if it breaks down. The war ended before she graduated as an Honors Student CommandThe other ATS members voiced her as Princess Auto Mechanic.
We don’t know if she’s been under the hood of many official state vehicles and much more informal fleets in royal garages, but she still drives around on her own. around the UK later this year. This is a small collection of royal transmissions used during her 70 years of reign.
Golden State Trainer (1762)
It’s true that she’s never driven one, but a tour of every royal garage should start with the trainer. King George III commissioned Samuel Butler to build it in 1760. Butler spent two years in a gilded chariot 24 feet long and over 12 feet tall. The areas are suspended from the frame by leather straps, so the occupants can toss it even on a slow stroll, at speeds as fast as eight Windsor Gray horses can pull it. It wasn’t until the 1900s that King George VI made wooden wheels. The word is the queen doesn’t like it.
1953 Land Rover Series 1
Land Rover gave Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, the 100th example of the 80th Order leaving the Order in 1948. She picked up the Landie routine for herself five years later, when a 1953 Series 1 with a custom 86-inch wheelbase was part of a fleet of vehicles used for her six-month tour of the Commonwealth in 1953 and 1954. That Land Rover became the State IV Ceremonial Vehicle. The above models built in Australia in 1958 almost replicas of Commonwealth travel vehicles, when Australia decided it wanted six identical versions to serve the royal family.
It is thought the royal family has gone through about 30 Land Rover Series and Defenders vehicles since then, and many of her most popular photos have her posing in or near one, especially in 2002. Defender Built just for her. The royal family doesn’t end with them either: A Defender 110 currently serves as a luggage cart for family members to Balmoral Castle during the queen’s last days.
1954 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV State Landaulette
No one should be surprised that the British royal family is very fond of items provided by Rolls royce car, and the queen did as her Spirit of Ecstasy cars. Rolls-Royce has made less than 20 examples of Rolls-Royce Phantom IV – Rolls-Royce builds them exclusively for the customers it deems worthy – and the queen owns two. A sedan limousine was delivered on 6 July 1950 while she was still the Duchess of Edinburgh. Rolls-Royce built this open powered car Landaulet during the jubilee year of 1954, loaned to the royal family in the 1950s, the queen finally bought it in 1959 to serve as a vehicle of the state.
Other Rolls-Royces used in the royal family include the 1960 Rolls-Royce Phantom V ‘High Roof’ Limousine, the 1962 Rolls-Royce Phantom V used by the Queen Mother, and the 1977 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Limousine used by the Queen Mother. built for the queen’s Silver Jubilee, a 1985 Rolls-Royce ‘Centenary’ Silver Spur Saloon that Princess Diana would use, a 1987 ghost State VI limousines and another Phantom IV carried Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to their wedding.
Bonhams sold Landaulette in 1954 in auction in 2018 for £800,000 ($927,672).
Bentley Arnage State Limousines
The last four decades of the 1900s were about Rolls-Royce, the 2000s were about Bentley. Crewes Co Build two Limousines of the State of Arnage for the Queen’s Golden Celebration in 2002. They hid the armor plating underneath the black paint and bodywork, they rode on puncture-resistant tires and carried flashing blue lights as if it were 20.5 in length. foot, SUV height, flags and supporting vehicles are not ‘not enough to tell everyone where the queen is.
Despite packing the same 6.75-liter V8 that has been a Bentley staple for decades, Arnage State Limousine remains below 10 mph on official business travel.
Said to cost $11 million eacha portion of that money was spent on hitch jobs like the Perspex sunroof with retractable flaps, Hield Lambswool Sateen fabric rear seats and light gray Connolly leather elsewhere.
If the queen gets bored with them, the state limousine fleet at Royal Mews also counts three Rolls-Royces and three Daimlers. Those Daimlers, by the way, refer to the British brand loved by the Royal Family before Elizabeth switched to Rolls-Royces in the 1950s, not the German brand we are more familiar with now.
The Queen also received the first Bentley Bentayga produced, delivered by then-CEO Wolfgang Durheimer.
Jaguar Daimler V8 Super LWB
Along with Land Rovers, this one that the queen drove herself for the next three years Jaguar delivered it to Buckingham Palace in 2001. British Racing Blue, Custom features include armrest with sliding tray designed in the style of queen’s favorite handbag, rearrange HVAC vents and switch to lower windows from any position as queen does not like fresh air blowing in her face himself, an ashtray converted into a switch panel for the security lighting system blue, blue lights in different positions identifying this as the queen’s car, the headlights and taillights are clickable flashes and connections in the trunk for the device can directly contact the Home Office and Downing Street.
2009 Jaguar X-Type Sportwagon V6 Sovereign
The Queen showed her support for the home team with the most surprising car on this list: the 2009 Jaguar X-Type Sportwagon, the first series production wagon of the Coventry brand. Another one she drove herself, she kept it for seven years and still driving to and from church in 2017 91 years old. It is fitted with a dog grille behind the rear seats for the team of Corgis that the queen is known to love.
1961 Vauxhall Cresta PA Friary Estate
It’s also not the first daily ride equipped with a dog grille. Elizabeth abandons a 1956 Ford Zephyr Estate in 1961 for another local entry, a Vauxhall Cresta PA sedan. Despite being a British product with a 2.2-liter six-cylinder engine and 82.5 horsepower, it followed American design trends such as wraparound windows, lightweight tail fins and tires with white baffles.
There wasn’t enough room in the sedan for the family, dogs, and recreational gear like shotguns and fishing rods, so Elizabeth bought one of the examples from Friary Coachbuilding, turning the sedan into a wagon. The engine is also down to 2.65 liters, bringing the top speed to 95 mph.
Range Rover
One Royal Appointment Guarantee granted “as a mark of recognition to persons or companies that have regularly provided goods or services” to the monarch’s households and the more than 800 holders of Royal Orders are allowed to display Royal Arms as proof of their service until the order expires.
Land Rover is one of four British companies holds all four Royal Warrants including the Royal Family: Each is for the Queen, Queen Elizabeth, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles.
So since we start with Land Rovers – after coach – we will end up with Range Rover, another personal car and clear favorite of the queen. HMTQ can be seen next to Range Rovers from 1979 onwards. She received the third generation Range Rover Autobiography in 2002, along with the fourth generation Range Rover LWB Landaulet in 2015. The latter Rangie was one of the State Review cars to have a rear platform, along with the latter. hood, allowing Elizabeth to stand on the podium and wave to crowds during events.
But 2002 was already a photographer favorite because of the distinctive hood decoration. Elizabeth loves to hunt pheasants, so she loves Labrador almost as much as a corgi. Sitting in the middle of the hood on her third-generation Range Rover is a Labrador with a bird in her mouth, as you can see at the beginning of this article. It has a lot of press in the Queen’s travels to the annual Windsor Royal Horse Show or she drives around the Royal Family estate at Sandringham.
