Category Archives: Combat car, armored vehicles

The White AM was a French armoured vehicle that was supposed to meet the demands of the French army for such vehicles for the Western Front and the beginning position war. (more…)...

The armoured vehicle Peugeot 1914 was built in the course of the First World War on the basis of the Charron model 1905 and was used in large numbers on the western front. (more…)...

The Charron model 1905 was considered the first modern armoured car. Although only a few units were built, the vehicle served as a predecessor for further developments. (more…)...

The Mark IX was a specially built to transport infantry tanks based on the Mark V* and can be regarded as the first troopship in the world. (more…)...

The British Little Willie was a prototype, which initiated the development of tanks and is considered the cornerstone for the well-known British Mark tanks. (more…)...

The development of the Rolls-Royce armored car was an attempt to compensate for the lack of aircraft in support of the British soldiers in Dunkirk. In August 1914, the Eastchurch Squadron of RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) was founded under the leadership of Charles Rumney Samson. Initially stationed in Ostend, they were relocated to Dunkirk shortly...

With the advent of the first combat aircraft on the Western Front, the air defense developed. With the Pierce-Arrow armored truck, a mobile air defense was introduced, the principle of which continues to this day. In the fall of 1914, the British Royal Marine Artillery decided to introduce a mobile air defense. As a weapon, the...

The original model of the Lanchester 4 × 2 armored car was used by the Royal Naval Air Service to rescue crashed pilots. Only in December 1914 when Dunkerque one of these vehicles was converted into an armored car, its value was recognized and given a larger number in order. In addition to Rolls-Royce, Lanchester was...

The Austin armored car was an armored vehicle that was built shortly after the beginning of the First World War in Great Britain for the Russian army. Only after the collapse of the Russian Empire, the British army took over some of the vehicles. At the end of August 1914, a Russian committee moved to Britain...

The Killen-Strait Armoured Tractor was a prototype developed from an agricultural utility vehicle to destroy the positions and barbed wire barriers on the Western Front. The Killen-Walsh Manufacturing Company was based in the US and produced tractors and agricultural vehicles until the beginning of the First World War. In 1914, the name was changed to Killen-Strait,...