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Daimler Scout Car of the Dutch Princess Irene Brigade in 1943. The Dingo was first used by the British Expeditionary Force (1st Armoured Division and 4th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) during the Battle of France. It turned out to be so successful that no replacement was sought until 1952 with the production of the Daimler Ferret. Principal ...
The Alvis Dingo was a prototype military scout car produced in 1938 by Alvis Car and Engineering Company. [1] [2] It was built for the British War Office to carry out comparison trials with vehicles produced by Birmingham Small Arms Company(BSA), and Morris Motors. The Alvis Dingo was ultimately not chosen by the War Office due to the BSA ...
The Daimler armoured car was a parallel development to the Daimler Dingo scout car, a small armoured vehicle for scouting and liaison roles. It was another Birmingham Small Arms Company design. A larger version designed on the same layout as the Dingo fitted with the turret similar to that of the Mark VII 'Tetrarch' Light Tank and a more ...
British Daimler Dingo Mk 1 – Le. Pz.Sp.Wg. Mk l 202(e) British AEC Dorchester armoured bus; British Universal Carrier – Gepanzerter Maschinengewehrträger Bren 731(e) British Universal Carrier – Gep. MG-Träger Br 731(e) modified with 20 mm Flak 38; British Universal Carrier – 8.8 cm Raketenpanzerbüchse 43 (with 88 mm Rockets)
Daimler Dingo, Humber scout car, light ambulance, 15cwt GS truck, most Universal Carriers: 5: most 15cwt trucks, 30cwt GS truck, White scout car, ambulance, Humber staff car, Windsor universal carrier, Lynx, 4 wheel trailer 6: most 30cwt trucks, some 3-ton trucks, Morris C8 "quad" tractor, 6-pounder gun 7
In 1938, Alvis produced a prototype armoured light reconnaissance vehicle for comparison trials with other manufacturers. The Alvis Dingo lost out to a design by BSA Cycles but 'Dingo' was adopted as the name for the BSA design; which was built by a BSA subsidiary as the Daimler Dingo. Post-war, Alvis designed a series of six-wheel drive vehicles.
Australia as a nation was ill-prepared for the Second World War and possessed little in the way of armoured vehicles. Being at the time unable to purchase them from their traditional supplier, the United Kingdom whose industrial output was dedicated to more immediate needs in Europe, they were forced by circumstance to develop and build them from what resources were available in Australia, and ...
Daimler Armoured Car (2,694; United Kingdom) Daimler Dingo scout car (6,626; United Kingdom & Canada) Deacon armoured lorry self-propelled anti-tank gun (175; United Kingdom) Diana Sd.Kfz 6/3 converted half track tank destroyer (9; Germany) Dicker Max - see 10.5 cm K (gp.Sfl.) Dingo scout car (245; Australia) Dodge Mk VII and Mk VIII armoured ...