Early Armoured Cars.

[SirCoutin]

Hey everyone, came across these pictures on an old German newspaper about WW1. Lets use this thread to aggregate all information about early armoured cars.

- Coutin

PS: Does anyone recognize the American models?

 

[fortrena]

The American armoured car on the left appears to be the 1915 Davidson-Cadillac.

Davidson-Cadillac armored car - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[fortrena]

The French armoured car (middle image) appears to be a 1914-ish Renault (Type ED?).

Renault modele 1914

Renault modele 1914

www.tanks-encyclopedia.com

 

[fortrena]

The American armoured car on the right appears to be a 1916-ish Mack .

WarWheels.Net- Locomobile/Mack/White Armored Car Index

Locomobile/Mack/White Armored Car Index

warwheels.net

 

[fortrena]

Not an armoured car from the photos above and not an unbuilt project either but interesting nonetheless

Armoured Autocar, personal carrier

The Canadian Armoured Autocar, armoured Car and mobile machine gun nest, protected troop transport

www.tanks-encyclopedia.com

 

[Apophenia]

The vehicle on the right is indeed based on a Mack chassis. But the AC Mack was just one of three virtually identical armoured bodies built on a variety of chassis in 1916 for experimentation by the New York Army National Guard. The other chassis came from Locomobile and White. (These three were joined by the Jeffery Quad (which had a completely difference armoured body).

For these NYANG cars, see Armoured Cars of New York:
-- https://www.keymilitary.com/article/armoured-cars-new-york

Oddly, none of the chassis supplier's manufacturing plants were based in New York state.

- Mack Brothers Company (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
- Locomobile Company of America (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
- Thomas B Jeffery Company (Kenosha, Wisconsin)
- White Motor Company (Cleveland, Ohio)