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The Minerva's use in combat in August 1914 made Belgium the first Nation to employ armoured cars in World War I, [6] though Italy had previously been the first to use armoured cars in a theatre of conflict, in the 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War. [7]
A group of Belgian Minerva armoured cars. Most of the armoured cars of the war were produced by building armoured bodywork over commercial large car and truck chassis. Austria-Hungary. Austro-Daimler armoured car [46] Gonsior-Opp-Frank armoured car * [47] Junovicz P.A.1 [48] Romfell armoured car [49] Belgium. Minerva armoured car [50] SAVA ...
They had placed Cockerill armour plating and a Hotchkiss machine gun on Minerva touring cars, creating the Minerva Armored Car. Their successes in the early days of the war convinced the Belgian GHQ to create a Corps of Armoured Cars , who would be sent to fight on the Eastern front once the western front immobilized after the Battle of the Yser .
Large cars continued to be a specialty of Minerva's, and in 1930 the then almost-compulsory-for-the-time straight eight was introduced in two sizes; the 6.6-litre AL and the 4-litre AP. [7] The last Minerva was the 2-litre M4 of 1934 but it did not sell well. A green 1924 Minerva MLT tractor and a 1934 Minerva SP fire engine at Autoworld in ...
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The Belgian Expeditionary Corps of Armoured Cars in Russia (French: Corps Expeditionnaire des Autos-Canons-Mitrailleuses Belges en Russie) was a Belgian military unit sent to Russia during World War I. It fought alongside the Imperial Russian army on the Eastern Front. Between 1915 and 1918, 444 Belgian soldiers served with the unit of whom 16 ...
This category is for articles about armoured cars introduced during World War I. Pages in category "World War I armoured cars" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The Motor Transport Corps (M.T.C.) was formed out of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps on 15 August 1918, by General Order No. 75. Men needed to staff this new corps were recruited from the skilled tradesmen working for automotive manufacturers in the US.