The Tank, Light (Wheeled) Mk I: a Woolwich Arsenal design built by Guy on the Quad-Ant chassis with the engine moved to the rear, and the first British armoured car with an all-welded hull. 101 were built in 1939–40 after five prototypes in 1938: 5.2 long tons, up to 15 mm of armour, a 55 hp Meadows 4ELA, 40 mph, 210 miles and three crew.
MODEL LINELight Tank (Wheeled)BUILT BYGuy Motors Ltd, Fallings Park, WolverhamptonPRODUCED1938–40OPERATED INUnited Kingdom, Belgium, NetherlandsPRODUCTION101 productionLAYOUT4 wheels
The record
The contract specified riveted armour; Guy proposed welding, developed rotating jigs for the hulls and turrets, and offered to stand the cost of the first batch if the welds failed. They did not, and the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors later recognised the technique. Guy lacked the capacity to build the car alongside its artillery tractors, so the design went to the Rootes Group, whose Karrier division built the Humber Armoured Car on its KT 4 chassis with welded hulls and turrets from Guy. Six Guys went to France with the BEF and were lost there; others served with British, Belgian and Dutch units in Britain until 1943. The Tank Museum at Bovington holds the only survivor.
ENGINEMeadows 4ELA four-cylinder petrol, 55 hp (41 kW)Meadows 4ELA
PRODUCTION RUN101 production (50 Mk I, 51 Mk IA), after five prototypes
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINELight Tank (Wheeled)
FAMILYLight Tank (Wheeled)
WHEELS4
BODY STYLETurreted
VARIANTS1
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Body styles & colours
Factory colours
Khaki Green No. 3
Light Stone
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
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