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The Ferret armoured car, also commonly called the Ferret scout car, is a British armoured fighting vehicle designed and built for reconnaissance purposes. The Ferret was produced between 1952 and 1971 by the UK company Daimler .
The museum was founded in 1980 as the Ontario Regiment Ferret Club. Housed in a garage in north Oshawa, the collection began with nine fully restored surplus Canadian Ferret armoured cars. [1] Ferret Scout Car in Canadian UN detail, 1993 First parade: (From left) ONT R HLCol Wilton, with CO LCol Morin and USO Capt Wilkinson (8CH), Oshawa, 1981
The vehicle had a combat weight of 6.75 tonnes and was designed to be air-portable. [2] The Fox had aluminium armour and was fitted with a flotation screen. It lacked protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Powered by a Jaguar 4.2-litre 6-cylinder petrol engine, the Fox was one of the fastest vehicles of its type.
FV700: Series of vehicles based on Daimler Ferret 4x4 scout car. FV701: Scout Car Liaison, Ferret Mk. 1/1; FV702: Orange William test vehicle; FV703: Scout Car Reconnaissance/GW, Ferret Mk. 2/6; FV704: Scout Car Liaison Ferret Mk. 1/2; FV711: Scout Car Reconnaissance, Ferret Mk. 4 (Big-wheeled) FV712: Scout Car Reconnaissance/GW, Ferret Mk. 5 ...
The Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle (Wheeled), abbreviated to CVR(W), was a line of vehicles to replace the Ferret Armoured Car in British Army service. Two variants were planned: Fox (FV721) – fitted with a high velocity 30 mm L21 RARDEN cannon , the same as fitted to the FV107 Scimitar Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle a member of the Combat ...
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During World War II, the British generally used armoured cars for reconnaissance, from the machine gun armed Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and Daimler Dingo to the 6-pdr (57 mm) gun equipped AEC armoured car. Post war the British Army used the Ferret and later, Fox scout cars.
Designed for reconnaissance, and liaison between armoured units, it provided protection only against light arms fire, so was not a front line vehicle. More importantly it was small and fast and could quickly evade trouble. It became the shape format for the post war Ferret armoured car which began production in 1952.