Super-powered RL!!!

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

This was either an attempt to speed up the Bedford workhorse with extra power or the 55-mile range Blue Water missile, that was duly cancelled.

[Lynn Eades]

With a four speed box and the governor set to 29mph in third gear, I dont think so! the only thing going for it is the aero-dynamics of the cargo. The RL will never be more than a "rolls can ardly", because if you up power the things, you've got serious problems trying to stop 'em.-----Nice pic even if seems that the truck and the rocket come from two different technological ages.
How many mechanics have been injured standing up from a front hub,and hitting their head on the bottom corner of an RL door?

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Note that the chap has lit the touch paper and is laying well back!

This missile was cancelled just as it was showing promise. Designed as an air-portable, mobile missile, to be mounted on a 3-ton Bedford truck, with the ability to shoot and scoot. Originally called Red Rose, the missile may have been a modified Red Shoes SAGW, but the requirement demanded a completely new missile.

Cancelled by Harold Macmillan, PM in 1962.

[Phil Waterman]

Looks like a good way to put a Bedford on the Barbie. Couple of oil leaks a little petrol leak and poof. I hope that the launch cable is longer than pictured.