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During early 1944 it is believed that several little Austin Seven Ruby vehicles were modified and transported by glider across the English channel by either Halifax, Sterling or Albemarle aircraft from an airfield near the south coast and released over occupied northern France with possibly soldiers from the Royal Signals or SOE, Winston Churchills ‘Special Operations Executive’. Their sole aim to gather last minute but valuable intelligence prior to the Normandy landings in June of that year. The two seater 750cc 7hp car featured a .303 caliber Bren machine gun mounted on a wooden platform inplace of the rear seats. Radio transmitters and field telephones were stored underneath. Affectionately named ‘Olive’ after her shade of olive drab green paint, this 1935 Reconnaissance war machine features a cartoon of Olive Oyl painted on each side of her bonnet with the slogan ‘Olive sez 1935!’