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Canadian armoured car This article is about the World War II Canadian vehicle. For the post-war British vehicle, see Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle. For the German/American NBC reconnaissance vehicle, see M93 Fox.

Fox armoured car Armoured car, General Motors Mark I (Fox I)
Fox Mark I
Type	Armoured car
Place of origin	Canada
Service history
Used by	British Commonwealth and associated foreign units during the Second World War, Portugal, Netherlands and Indonesia post war.
Wars	Second World War Portuguese Colonial War
Specifications
Mass	8 t
Length	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Width	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Height	2.4 m (8 ft)
Crew	4

Armour	up to 15 mm (0.59 in)
Main armament	0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun
Secondary armament	0.30 in (7.62 mm) M1919 Browning machine gun
Engine	GMC 6-cylinder petrol
Power/weight	?
Suspension	Wheel 4x4
Operational range	250 km (160 mi)
Maximum speed	71 km/h (44 mph)

The Fox armoured car was a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle produced by Canada in the Second World War.

History

Built by General Motors, Canada, based on a construction of the British Humber armoured car Mk III, adapted to a Canadian Military Pattern truck (CMP) chassis. The turret was manually traversed and fitted with 0.30 in (7.6 mm) and 0.50 in (13 mm) Browning machine guns. The four man crew consisted of the vehicle commander, the driver, a gunner and a wireless operator. 1,506 vehicles were manufactured.

It saw operations in Italy, UK and India. Among its users was Polish 15th Pułk Ułanów Poznańskich ("Poznań Uhlans Regiment"), fighting in Italy in 1943–1944. After the Second World War many of them went to the Portuguese Army, which used them from 1961 to 1975 in counterinsurgency in Angola, Guinea and Mozambique. The Netherlands, faced with a shortage of Humber armoured cars for use in the Dutch East Indies, acquired 39 Foxes, 34 of which were fitted with Humber Mk. IV turrets (which had a 37 mm gun). The resulting hybrid vehicle, called "Humfox", was immediately successful and popular, and some were passed to the Indonesian Army after independence.

Former operators

Surviving vehicles

Karl Smith Collection in Tooele, Utah.
Shopland Collection, Clevedon, Somerset, UK.
Robert Gill Collection - three, one displayed in Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna)
Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
The Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, Oshawa, Canada
Canada War Museum, Ottawa, Canada
Portugal, Museu militar Elvas

Notes

The Humber had a 7.92 mm and 15 mm Besa machine guns

References

Magnuski, Janusz (1998), Wozy bojowe Polskich Sił Zbrojnych 1940-1946 (in Polish), Wydawnictwo Lampart, p. 198

External links

External image
the Fox Armoured Car
WWII photo

British Commonwealth armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War

Tanks

Light tanks	Light tank Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, Mk IV and Mk V Light tank Mk VI Light tank Mk VII Tetrarch Light tank Mk VIII 'Harry Hopkins' Vickers 6-ton M3/M5 Stuart * M22 Locust * M24 Chaffee *
Cruiser tanks	Cruiser Mk I Cruiser Mk II Cruiser Mk III Cruiser Mk IV Covenanter Crusader Cavalier Centaur and Cromwell Challenger Comet Ram ‡ Sentinel †
Infantry tanks	Matilda I Matilda II Valentine Churchill
Medium tanks	Grant/Lee * Grizzly I ‡ Sherman * Sherman Firefly Vickers Medium Mark II

Self-propelled
artillery

Field	Bishop Priest* Sexton ‡
Anti-tank	Deacon 17pdr SP Achilles Archer M10 tank destroyer *

Armoured personnel
carriers

Scout cars and
armoured cars

Scout cars	Daimler Dingo Dingo scout car † Humber scout car Lynx scout car ‡ S1 scout car †
Armoured cars	AEC armoured car Boarhound armoured car * Coventry armoured car Daimler armoured car Fox armoured car ‡ Greyhound armoured car * Guy armoured car Humber armoured car Indian Pattern Carrier § Lanchester 6×4 armoured car Marmon-Herrington armoured cars Morris CS9 Rhino heavy armoured car † Rolls-Royce armoured car Rover light armoured car † Staghound armoured car * Standard Beaverette
Reconnaissance cars	Humber light reconnaissance car Morris light reconnaissance car Otter light reconnaissance car ‡

Armoured command
vehicles

Armoured trucks

Experimental vehicles

Key: * American lend-lease, † Australian, ‡ Canadian, § Indian, SA South African, ¶ New Zealand, field conversions of vehicles of various origins

Background: British armoured fighting vehicle production during World War II, Tanks in the British Army

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