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The 'Improvised' South African Car That Fought Britain's Wars With Captured Enemy Guns

The Marmon-Herrington looked like a desperate compromise. A commercial Ford V8 inside a truck chassis wrapped in flat steel plates. Six tonnes of improvised armour carrying machine guns that could not stop a halftrack. Its engine came from Canada, its drivetrain from Indianapolis, and its armour plate from South Africa. No part of it was designed in Britain. It then fought across East Africa, North Africa, Greece, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies. Nearly 5,746 were built in four years. Its crews ripped off their own turrets and bolted on captured enemy guns. The last examples saw combat more than thirty years after production ended. This is the story of the Marmon-Herrington armoured car — the vehicle South Africa built when Britain had nothing else to send. Sources and further reading: — 4th SA Armoured Car Regiment War Diary (North Africa 1941–43) — Tank Encyclopedia: Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car — Bovington Tank Museum: Marmon-Herrington Mk III — Wikipedia: Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car, Battle of Sidi Rezegh, Operation Crusader #BritishWarArmory #MarmonHerrington #SouthAfrica #WW2 #NorthAfrica #DesertWar #DesertRats #ElAlamein #ArmouredCar #MilitaryHistory #BritishArmy #WW2History