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The Camionetta Desertica Model 42 (also known as the SPA-Viberti AS.42 or Sahariana) was an Italian reconnaissance car of World War II. [1] The AS.42 (Africa Settentrionale = North Africa) was developed by SPA-Viberti using the same chassis as the AB 41 armoured car, including its four-wheel steering, but with a 2x4 transmission specifically for desert operations, primarily in a reconnaissance ...
A Coventry in The Tank Museum, Bovington A Coventry in action. The Coventry was a combined effort between Daimler Company and the Rootes Group to produce a standard armoured car design which could be produced by both companies. [2] Rootes had larger production capacity than Daimler but the Humber armoured car was a more complex design than the ...
In 1943 two cars, numbered RR511 & RR512, were painted blue for use by police units. [ 3 ] The Csaba had a 20 mm Solothurn anti-tank cannon [ 4 ] and a coaxial 8 mm Gebauer 1934/37M machine gun fixed on a centrally mounted turret, with 9 mm armoured plating.
The Autoblindo 40, 41 and 43 (abbreviated AB 40, 41 and 43) were Italian armoured cars produced by Fiat-Ansaldo and which saw service mainly during World War II.Most autoblinde were armed with a 20 mm Breda 35 autocannon and a coaxial 8 mm machine gun in a turret similar to the one fitted to the Fiat L6/40, and another hull mounted rear-facing 8 mm machine gun.
The original jeep designs were handed over to Willys-Overland and Ford and became the basis for the design of the World War II jeep. After the delivery of the first jeep, American Bantam kicked off serial production of the Mark II (also called the BRC-60) jeeps with improvements suggested by the QMC. American Bantam was the sole manufacturer of ...
List of equipment used in World War II; List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War II; List of prototype World War II combat vehicles; Military equipment of Germany's allies on the Balkan and Russian fronts (1941–45) List of U.S. Signal Corps Vehicles; G-numbers; Hobarts Funnies
The Marmon–Herrington armoured car was a series of armoured vehicles that were produced in South Africa and adopted by the British Army during World War II. They were also issued to RAF armoured car companies, which seem never to have used them in action, making greater use of Rolls-Royce armoured cars and other types. [3]
The 'mittlerer' (medium) Horch / Wanderer 901 was the most common variant of the various Einheits-Pkw (here: 'Typ(e) 40' in the August Horch Museum Zwickau.. Early on in the process of motorizing the German military before World War II, first the Reichswehr, and then the Wehrmacht had procured militarised versions of many different makes and models of civilian passenger cars.