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====1st Armoured Car Company====
*The 1st Armoured Car Co. equipped with Rolls Royce cars was sent to Iraq in March 1920 to help put down a rebellion <ref name=4and7> [http://www.4and7royaltankregiment.com/1918-1939.html The History of the 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiments 1918-1939]</ref>
*This A Great War Forum post <ref>Great War Forum post [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98868&#entry927796 postArmoured cars, baghdad] </ref> indicates that 6 LAMB became part of the 1st Armoured Car Co. of the Tank Corps at the end of 1920. 6 LAMB had a Rolls-Royce armoured car called Cleopatra in 1920. Others were called Harvester, Avenger and Chatham. This comes from the unit war diary of the time, which is found under WO 95/5206 at Kew. 6 LAMB were under 17th Indian Division at the time and was based at Ramadi, Iraq.*A War Office communiqué concerning the movement of troops, reported in ''The Straits Times'' of 14 August 1922, “1st and 2nd Armoured Car Companies, Iraq to India” <ref name=Iraq >[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19220814-1.2.77.aspx "The Trooping Season"] Report of a War Office communiqué. ''The Straits Times'', 14 August 1922, page 11 </ref>
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008959 1985 interview with Sidney Albert Amatt] Reels 13-14 Recollections of period with No 1 and No 2 Armoured Car Coys, TC in Iraq, 1922-1923. Imperial War Museum. Sidney Amatt advised the duties in Iraq were taken over by the RAF in 1923 and the men sent to Armoured Car Companies in India, or back to England. Although not specified, in the context of the interview it appears likely that the Cars were transferred to the RAF.
*The 1st Armoured Car Co. was re-formed in England <ref name=Regi>[http://web.archive.org/web/20071121044904/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-cav/armdcar.htm 1st-12th Armoured Car Companies, Royal Tank Corps 1920-1939] Regiments.org, an archived website.</ref> and had arrived in India by 1925 <ref name=RTR>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130225134239/http://army.mod.uk/documents/general/RAC_History_Royal_Tank_Regiment.pdf The Royal Tank Regiment 1916 – 1998] army.mod.uk</ref>
====2nd Armoured Car Company====
*The 2nd Armoured Car Co. equipped with Rolls Royce cars was sent to Iraq in March 1920 to help put down a rebellion<ref name=4and7/>
*A War Office communiqué concerning the movement of troops, reported in ''The Straits Times'' of 14 August 1922, “1st and 2nd Armoured Car Companies, Iraq to India”.<ref name=Iraq />.
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008959 1985 interview with Sidney Albert Amatt] Reels 13-14 Recollections of period with No 1 and No 2 Armoured Car Coys, TC in Iraq, 1922-1923. Imperial War Museum. Sidney Amatt advised the duties in Iraq were taken over by the RAF in 1923 and the men sent to Armoured Car Companies in India, or back to England. Although not specified, in the context of the interview it appears likely that the Cars were transferred to the RAF.
*The 2nd Armoured Car Co. was re-formed in England <ref name=Regi /> and had arrived in India by 1925 <ref name=RTR />
