4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY BASE MODEL · 1952–71
BASE MODELUnited Kingdom

Ferret scout car (1952–71)

The Dingo’s successor and the longest-serving British scout car: 4,409 built between 1952 and 1971 across sixteen sub-models, 3.7 tonnes on a 2.29 m wheelbase, with a 130 hp Rolls-Royce B60 six, H-form drive with a central differential and parallel shafts that kept the hull low, two crew, 58 mph and 190 miles.

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Sources & evidence
Ferret scout car (1952–71) — Daimler Ferret scout car. RAF Museum LondonThe wub · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
MODEL LINEFerretBUILT BYThe Daimler Company, CoventryPRODUCED1952–71PRODUCTION4,409 in sixteen sub-modelsLAYOUT4 wheels · 90″

The record

The H-drive and independent suspension that made the Ferret so capable also kept it in service around the world long after Britain retired it in 1991. Sixteen marks were built — reconnaissance, turreted, Vigilant missile carriers, swimming versions with flotation screens — and Commonwealth and other armies ran them into the 1980s and beyond.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1952–71
ENGINERolls-Royce B60 petrol six, 130 hp (129 bhp at 3,750 rpm on late marks)Rolls-Royce B60
PRODUCTION RUN4,409 in sixteen sub-models
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
STATUSout of production; British service 1952–1991
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINEFerret
FAMILYFerret
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE90″
BODY STYLEScout car
VARIANTS2

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Body styles & colours

Body style

Factory colours

  • Deep Bronze Green
  • Light Stone

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

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Sources

  1. 1Daimler Ferret ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched