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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 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 ...
The Sd.Kfz. 234 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 234, Special Purpose Vehicle 234), was a family of armoured cars designed and built in Germany during World War II. The vehicles were lightly armoured, armed with a 20, 50 or 75 mm main gun, and powered by a Tatra V12 diesel engine. [3] The Sd.Kfz. 234 broadly resembles the appearance of Sd.Kfz. 231 (8 rad). [2]
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]
In 1936 the M-1 replaced the GAZ-A on the manufacturer's production lines, with the first two cars produced in March of that year and volume production starting in May. By the end of 1936 the plant had produced 2,524 GAZ M-1s, and in 1937 an M-1 was displayed in Paris at the International Artistic and technical exhibition of modern life .
The Guy Armoured Car [a] was a British armoured car produced in limited numbers during Second World War.The car saw limited action during the Battle of France.. The manufacturer had insufficient capacity for production of the armoured car alongside their artillery tractors, so the design and construction techniques were passed to Rootes and used as a basis for the Humber Armoured Car.