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Scroll down [http://ahmednagar.gov.in/html_docs/AhmednagarCity.htm Ahmednagar City] ahmednagar.gov.in</ref>
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000784 1976 interview with Raymond Briggs] Reel 3... Period as instructor with Ahmednagar Tank School, c 1921-1925: duties; problems of using armoured cars in aid of civil power. Imperial War Museum.
*Photograph of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140122220426/http://s28.betai28.photobucket.com/useralbums/c214/plant-pilot/media/Ahamednagar-1926.jpg.html Sgts Mess, Royal Tank Corps School, Ahmednagar 1926] from <ref>Plant-Pilot. [httphttps://www.arrse.co.uk/military-history-militariacommunity/threads/14152-family-military-photos.14152/page-24.html12#post417498 Thread, post-417498 Family Military Photos] ''Army Rumour Service]Forum'' page 12, post 231, 17 November 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2018.</ref>
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008959 1985 interview with Sidney Albert Amatt] Reel 16... attending course in armoured car tactics at RTC School, Ahmednagar. Reel 19... attending advanced driving and maintenance course driving Crossley armoured cars at RTC School, Ahmednagar (during the period 1923-1928) Imperial War Museum.
*The National Archives catalogue entry [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13265543 WO 305/4338/54 Royal Tank Corps School India, Ahmednagar] 1924-38
*C 1933 , the 8th Armoured Car Co. was at [[Delhi]] (for [[Peshawar]]). <ref name=RTC />
*1934 burial record <ref name=fmp />: Peshawar. Private James Rutledge. 8th AC Company, Royal Tank Corps, age 22 died 4 June 1934 due to Enteric. (Possible no. 7883069)
*Landships WW1 Forum thread about a grandfather who served in the 8th Armoured Car Company in the 1930s with a photograph of Armoured Car 'Agincourt', a Crossley (in original and restored versions).<refname=Agin> Landships WW1 Forum thread Crashman et al. [http://landships.activeboard.com/t53186987/rolls-royce-armoured-car-india-pattern/ ?page=1#comment-53186987 Rolls Royce Armoured Car india Pattern] '' Landships WW1 Forum'' 1 April 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2018. Note however, it is stated the Armoured Car is a Crossley, not a Rolls Royce</ref>
*The 8th Light Tank Co. took part in operations in Waziristan during 1937<ref name=Wazi/>
*Awards to soldiers of the 8th Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps for "gallant and distinguished service in action in connection with the operations on the North West Frontier of India, 1937"
*The 9th Armoured Car Company arrived in India in April 1921, with the 10th ACC.
*This [http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/burmaweb/ArmdCarBAF.htm link] (scroll down) describes the Rolls Royce Indian Pattern armoured cars, dating from 1922, issued to the 9th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps <ref name=Roth />
*Landships WW1 Forum thread [http:<ref name=Agin//landships.activeboard.com/t53186987/rolls-royce-armoured-car-india-pattern/ thread] > which states that the Tank Museum advised that Rolls-Royces only ever served with 9th Armoured Car Company, they could only afford enough of them for one company. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130930074055/http://landships.activeboard.com/t53186987/rolls-royce-armoured-car-india-pattern/ archive.org] link)
*1923, October. Headquarters were at Manzai.<ref name= IAL2310 />
*In late 1931 "The 9th Armoured Car Company, commanded by Major Simpson, recently left [[Kirkee]] and proceeded to [[Belgaum]], where it linked up with the 6th Armoured Car Company and engaged in technical training for a week...” (more details)<ref> [http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19311211-1.2.8.aspx ''The Straits Times'', 11 December 1931, Page 6]</ref>
*This [http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/burmaweb/ArmdCarBAF.htm link] (scroll down) describes the Rolls Royce Indian Pattern armoured cars, dating from 1922, issued to the 9th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps <ref name=Roth />
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZUKsgwKG9QAC&pg=PA32 Rolls-Royce Indian Pattern 9th Armoured Car Co. RTC c 1925] Description page 32, with illustration on page 33 from ''The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car'' by David Fletcher Preview Google Books
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140123021729/http://s28.betai28.photobucket.com/useralbums/c214/plant-pilot/media/Armoured.jpg.html Photograph: Rolls Royce Armoured Car course after the First World War] from a <ref>Plant-Pilot. [httphttps://www.arrse.co.uk/military-history-militariacommunity/threads/14152-family-military-photos.14152/page-23.html12#post417481 post-417481 Family Military Photos] ''Army Rumour Service] threadForum'' page 12, post 230, 17 November 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2018. </ref> Location not known.*[httphttps://ww2talkdefenceoftherealm.wordpress.com/forums2017/05/topic01/269515th-armoured-carscar-tankscompany-otherin-vehicleschina-pith1927-helmets29/?p=446589 Photograph: 1920 Pattern Rolls Royce armoured cars of 5th Armoured Car CoCompany in China, 1927-29] by Tony Wilkins 1 May 2017. Defence of the Realm. RTC in Shanghai during Also see the late 1920s] same WW2 Talk, originally from photograph on the Tank Museum’s Museum Facebook feedpage titled Shanghai, 1927.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/tankmuseum/photos/a.352150330841.153785. 313488960841/10150557583925842/?type=3&theatre Pic Of The Week: Shanghai, 1927] Tank Museum on Facebook 27 January 2012</ref> The 5th Armoured Car Co. does not appear to have served in India.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20121021021914/http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.a.paterson/equiparmourarmouredcars.htm Equipment Used By the Armoured Car Regiments] by Ian A Paterson, now an archived webpage. Includes a section "Rolls Royce Armoured Car"
*Landships WW1 Forum thread [http://63528.activeboard.com/t11057121/service-history-for-rolls-royce-armoured-cars Service History for Rolls Royce Armoured Cars] has two attachments (scroll down) called 'RR AC Units and Numbers 3-20-2007.xls' and 'Identified Rolls Royce Armoured Cars 3-12-2007.xls' . These however are viewable only if you are a member of this Forum
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevira/8871823 Photograph: strange military vehicle, India] Subsequently stated to be a be a Crossley Armoured Car, built between 1923 and 1928 approximately. Flickr.com. A lighter version of the photograph, which shows more detail<ref>sherlock. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/30601-rolls-royce-armoured-car/?do=findComment&comment=241510 Rolls-Royce armoured car] ''Great War Forum'' 12 April 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2018.</ref>
*Photographs: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60340724@N05/5797899332/in/set-72157626885034022/ Armoured Car 1 North West Frontier - c 1925], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60340724@N05/5797895804/in/set-72157626885034022/ Armoured Car 2], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60340724@N05/5797896766/in/set-72157626885034022 Armoured Car 3], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/60340724@N05/5797895470/in/set-72157626885034022 Armoured Car 4] PeteBoro’s photostream on flickr.com. These are labelled elsewhere <ref name=Warn />Jack Warner, 10th Armoured Car Co., Crossley Armoured Car, North West Frontier 1920s/late 1920s .One is labelled Practice Range.
*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180622063900/https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.activeboard.com/1289993?AWSAccessKeyId=1XXJBWHKN0QBQS6TGPG2&Expires=13862016001530748800&Signature=bb3METPnwsgZywG2HlTQIqH33kwrNnpEb3W%2Bk%2FDJSJRdclJNk4HFMs%3D Photograph: Armoured Car 'Agincourt'] which is stated to be a Crossley. (Restored version of the photograph, original [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180622063453/https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.activeboard.com/1289612?AWSAccessKeyId=1XXJBWHKN0QBQS6TGPG2&Expires=13862016001530748800&Signature=0adouaG4xvd%2F6K1bqQ79TKz7nadwU2Bf2CdHzonxl4wF7VXzY76Ukbc%3D here]). From a Landships WW1 Forum [http:<ref name=Agin//landships.activeboard.com/t53186987/rolls-royce-armoured-car-india-pattern/ thread]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130930074055/http://landships.activeboard.com/t53186987/rolls-royce-armoured-car-india-pattern/ archive.org] link, which does not include the photograph) >
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/austin7nut/5166156911 Photograph: 1930s Crossley India Pattern Armoured Car on the North West Frontier] flickr.com
*Two photographs taken by Sergeant Harry Ewin with the Royal Artillery in India during the early 1930s. Imperial War Museum
**[https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/178/mode/2up "Formation and Growth of the Tank Corps (May 1920)"] page 178
*There is a short chapter "Royal Tank Corps", pages 113-115 in [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36694 ''The Army in India and Its Evolution: Including an account of the establishment of the Royal Air Force in India''] 1924. Compiled Officially. Digital Repository of GIPE (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]). A pdf download to your computer.
*War Establishment of an Armoured Car Company, R.T.C. at December 1927 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.warestablishments.net%2FGreat%2520Britain%2FReconnaissance%2FArmoured%2520Car%2520Company%25201927.pdf html version] [http://www.warestablishments.net/Great%20Britain/Reconnaissance/Armoured%20Car%20Company%201927.pdf pdf] warestablishments.net. Attachment "Issued with A.C.I. 500 of 10th December 1927". "This establishment supersedes W.E. No. XXVa/30 in Provisional War Establshments, Part XXVa, for Non-divisional Units 1st June, 1923". Retrieved 12 October 2014. Note: this is probably a transcription, not an original document. A.C.I.= Army Council Instructions, probably the relevant National Archives record is WO 293/17, or British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/1/2042.
*Tanks during the First World War
**[https://archive.org/details/tankcorps00clou ''The Tank Corps''] by Major Clough Williams-Ellis, M. C., and A. Williams-Ellis 1919 Archive.org. Although the digital file contains some images, some appear to be missing. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082481882?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 HathiTrust Digital Library version] which appears to contain more images.
