No. It's a news photo taken in 1941. The Humber Ironside recce car had a limited luxury version. Here's the story of "basic" Ironsides and their Royal siblings, as told by
the Reconaissance Corps.
The "Light Armoured Car" class had been evolved of necessity in June 1940 in order to provide as rapidly as possible armoured vehicles to re-equip the British Army after the Dunkirk evacuation and to defend aircraft factories and other key industrial points.
The
Humber Light Armoured Car, known as the "Humberette", was ordered by the War Office and consisted of an open-top armoured body on a Humber Super Snipe car chassis with a six-cylinder 75/80 bhp engine. Few vehicles appear to have been produced in this form, because an improved version
"Ironside I", broadly the same but carried on W.D. pattern wheels with Run Flat tyres, followed soon afterwards and work on the 1,200 of these ordered was being carried out by the Rootes Group in July 1940.
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