armoured car
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19390001-022
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Autocar Company
- Date Made 1914/09/
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Distribution and transportation artifacts
- Sub-category Land transportation, motorized
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1914/09/01
- Latest 1914/09/30
- Brand Name / Model Armoured Machine-Gun Carrier
- Pattern Name Autocar
- Materials Metal
- Branch Canadian Machine Gun Corps
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Person / Institution Associated Military Personnel, Brutinel , C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Brigadier General Raymond Marc PierreAssociated Military Personnel, Black , M.C., Captain Lyman MungerAssociated Military Personnel, Worthington , C.B., M.C., M.M., C.D., Major-General Frederic Franklin
- Measurements Height 190.0 cm, Length 410.0 cm, Width 190.0 cm
- Caption Armoured Machine-Gun Carrier, "Autocar"
- Additional Information Built on a two-ton truck chassis, the car has 5mm of armour at the front and 3mm in the rear. With its solid rubber tires and its 22-horsepower engine, it could reach speeds of 30-40 kilometres per hour on roads, but it had very limited cross-country capability. Its twin Vickers machine-guns could each spew 450 bullets a minute.
- Caption Armoured Car
- Additional Information This armoured car was manufactured by the Autocar Company. Built on a two-ton truck chassis, the car had 5mm of armour at the front and 3mm in the rear. With its solid rubber tires and 22-horsepower engine, it could reach speeds of 30 to 40 kilometres per hour on roads, but had very limited cross-country capability. Its twin Vickers machine-guns could each spew 450 bullets per minute.