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Vinot Deguinguand armoured car † [55] White AM armoured car [55] Germany Ehrhardt E-V/4. Büssing A5P [13] Daimler 15 [13] Ehrhardt E-V/4 [58] Mannesmann MULAG armoured truck [59] Marienwagen II armoured halftrack † [60] Italy. Bianchi armoured car [61] Fiat-Terni armoured car [62] Lancia 1ZM [61] Pavesi 35 PS armoured car [63] Ottoman ...
The Rolls-Royce armoured car is a British armoured car developed in 1914 and used during the First World War, Irish Civil War, the inter-war period in Imperial Air Control in Transjordan, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and in the early stages of the Second World War in the Middle East and North Africa.
The first armoured car was the Simms' Motor War Car, designed by F.R. Simms in response to the Second Boer War and built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim in Britain [1] Another early armoured car of the period was the French Charron, Girardot et Voigt 1902 , presented at the Salon de l'Automobile et du cycle in Brussels , on 8 March 1902. [ 2 ]
Construction of the armoured vehicle began in March, and by 16 April the first Garford–Putilov armoured car was sent to an armoured company. [14] Two and a half weeks later, on 3 March 1915, after the formation and training of the crew the new armoured car was sent to the south-western front into the composition of the 5th auto-mobile platoon ...
Early Peugeot armoured car with wooden sides. In the early months of the war, commercially acquired Peugeot type 153 tourers were hastily converted to open topped armoured cars by the addition of slab-sided 5.5 mm (0.22 in) thick armoured plates around the crew compartment and an unprotected rear fighting compartment with wooden sides with a central pivot mounted machine gun or 37mm gun ...
Renault 1914 armoured car (automitrailleuse). Renault modele 1914 automitrailleuse; Renault 18hp chassis with 95/160 engine. The first 100 were extemporised but a standard armoured body form followed with a machine gun at the rear. Together with twin rear tyres this formed the Modele 1915 variant. Renault Mle 1915 armoured car (automitrailleuse).
The Lanchester was a turreted armoured car, built on the chassis of a Lanchester Sporting Forty luxury tourer.The layout of the Lanchester was similar to the Rolls-Royce, with a front mounted engine, crew compartment in the middle and rear cargo deck; the fighting compartment and turret was almost identical to the Rolls-Royce.
In 1916, the Lancia 1Z armoured car was built by Ansaldo of Italy. [1] It was the most common of the early Italian armoured cars. Based on a Lancia truck, the armoured car was an advanced design for its day. For firepower the vehicle was equipped with twin turret mounted machine guns. The initial ten vehicles featured a further small turret on ...