Early in 1938 the Army tested British and foreign four-wheel-drive chassis for a new armoured car. The Guy chassis was chosen to get production started quickly, and three cars had been built by September. The contract called for riveted armour; Guy proposed welding instead, built rotating jigs for the hulls and turrets, and offered to bear the cost of the first batch if the method failed.
Guy could not build the car in numbers alongside its tractors, so the design went to the Rootes Group. Its Karrier division built the Humber Armoured Car on the KT 4 chassis with welded hulls and turrets supplied by Guy, which by 1945 had made 2,137 armoured-car hulls.
Prototypes (1938)
1 VEHICLE IN THIS CHAPTERFive cars to a Woolwich Arsenal design on the Quad-Ant chassis, with the engine at the rear.
Registry records · chapter 1
Production (1939–1940)
2 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTER50 Mk I cars with Vickers machine guns, then 51 Mk IA with Besa guns.
Registry records · chapter 2
Service (1940–1943)
2 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERSix cars lost in France with the BEF; cars without guns for the Coats Mission; Belgian and Dutch units in Britain. Withdrawn in 1943.
Registry records · chapter 3
Base models
The structural configurations the registry and the Creator build from; each page carries the researched specification.In service
Where the registry's Light Tank (Wheeled) records worked; each opens the themed history.Sources
- Guy armoured car — Wikipedia
- Guy Light Tank (Wheeled) — David Lister, 28 November 2019 — Tank Encyclopedia
- Humber armoured car — Wikipedia
- Guy Motors Through the War Years (13 July 1945, p. 30) — Commercial Motor