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BASE MODELMilitary · UKUnited Kingdom

Armoured Car (1941–45)

The Dingo’s bigger parallel: 2,694 built, 7.85 tonnes in battle order, 4 m long, with a 4.1-litre Daimler 27 six of 102 hp, a turret like the Tetrarch light tank’s carrying a 2-pounder and a coaxial Besa, three crew, 50 mph and 200 miles.

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Sources & evidence
Armoured Car (1941–45) — UK - Daimler Armoured Car Mk.II with a 2 pdr (40mm) gun and a 7.92mm mg; at the Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset, March 1998. Scanned slide.Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
MODEL LINEArmoured CarBUILT BYThe Daimler Company, CoventryPRODUCED1941–45OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTION2,694LAYOUT4 wheels · 102″

The record

Prototypes ran in 1939 but the weight defeated the transmission and service entry waited until mid-1941. The Mk I CS carried a 76 mm close-support gun; the Mk II had a better turret, gun mount and radiator and a driver’s escape hatch; and the turretless command version was known as the SOD, the Sawn-Off Daimler.

Procedural model research, 2026-09-28: new shared armoured hull and two-man turret represented in Mk II form. 2590 mm wheelbase, four shared road wheels and independent coil detail, curved mudguards, recessed nose headlamps, central driver and roof escape hatch, rounded gun mantlet, 40 mm main gun and coaxial machine gun, turret-right searchlight and paired smoke tubes on both sides. Right-side water tins and left fixed spare are distinct; rear deck and large cooling shutters follow the museum walkaround. All 20 supplied originals inspected. Service-drab paint is representative and no unidentified unit/census markings have been invented. The existing export-operator list is broader than this British Army row and is preserved for review. Main cannon and paired smoke use shared gameplay controls; coaxial gun is visual. Handling data are arcade tuning. Full inventory/provenance: research/model-notes/stoneleigh-armoured-car.md.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1941–45
ENGINEDaimler 27 4.1-litre petrol six, 102 hpDaimler 27
PRODUCTION RUN2,694
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDBase model
FAMILYArmoured Car
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE102″
BODY STYLETurreted
VARIANTS1
CATEGORYMilitary · UK

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

  • Deep Bronze Green
  • Light Stone

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

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from a 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1Daimler Armoured Car ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE
  2. 2Mk II museum and photographic research ↗accessed 2026-09-28SOURCE
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  24. 24https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Armoured_Carhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Armoured_Car ↗REFERENCE
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    [Christophe Jacquemont's photographic walkaround](https://warwheels.net/Shorland3apcPortJacquemont.html): detailed door hinges, armoured windscreen shutters, headlamp guards, turret hatch, mantlet and spotlight. The model retains military green rather than copying the photographed Portuguese police livery. · MILITARY-MODEL-REFERENCES.md

    - [Christophe Jacquemont's photographic walkaround](https://warwheels.net/Shorland3apcPortJacquemont.html): detailed door hinges, armoured windscreen shutters, headlamp guards, turret hatch, mantlet and spotlight. The model retains military green rather than copying the photographed Portuguese police livery.

    NOTES

Registry record updated 2026-09-28T04:07:03.260Z · status: researched