The Queen is going green - thanks to a North Yorkshire garage.
Motor engineers have just converted her Rolls-Royce Phantom so it can run on environmentally-friendly gas rather than petrol.
And proud garage boss Gordon Wise was at Buckingham Palace today to personally present the Queen with her revamped Roller.
The work was carried out at the Autogas 2000 garage at Carlton Miniott, near Thirsk, where Gordon works with a team of four, including his son, Chris, and engineer Jonathan Smith, who carried out work on the right royal commission. The £1,200 conversion involved placing a gas tank in the boot to carry LPG - liquefied petroleum gas, or propane - which can prove to be up to 90 per cent cleaner than petrol.
Gordon, who has run the company for 20 years, said he was honoured to do the work.
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