Based on a number of different lorry chassis, it featured a fighting compartment protected by a layer of concrete. Bisons were used by the Royal Air Force...

Commons has media related to Armadillo (1940 AFV). Bedford OXA Bison concrete armoured lorry Standard Beaverette British anti-invasion preparations of World...

with a number of vehicles with improvised armour, such as the Bison concrete armoured lorry, intended to be used for defending airfields. Later in 1944...

the Mowag Piranha family Bison concrete armoured lorry, a British improvised mobile pillbox of 1940 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Bison, an upgrade variant of...

British Home Guard units until 1942. Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle Bison concrete armoured lorry Standard Beaverette Moschanskiy, I. (February 1999)...

regiment's initial equipment was the Bison concrete armoured lorry with extemporised armour and Standard Beaverette armoured cars handed over by 42nd Division's...

invasion-scare period were the Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle and the Bison concrete armoured lorries. Both were conventional trucks fitted with...

the turret be mounted on improvised armoured vehicles such as the Armadillo and the Bison concrete armoured lorry. Despite initial enthusiasm by those...

the airfield. This was known as the Bison and consisted of a lorry with a concrete armoured cabin and a small concrete pillbox on the flat bed. Constructed...

BCL-M5 4×4 armoured personnel carrier (Algeria; modern) BDX 4×4 armoured personnel carrier (Belgium; Cold War) Bison concrete armoured lorry (United Kingdom;...

or by special arrangement. List of Royal Air Force stations Bison concrete armoured lorry – one of which was used by the RAF Regiment to defend the airfield...

World War II Notes See Bison concrete armoured lorry for an alternative portable airfield defence scheme, put forward by Concrete Limited. References Pickett-Hamilton...

Production: New York Shipbuilding, NJ: 100 Quincy Barge Builders, IL: 66 Bison Shipbuilding, NY: 52 Manitowoc, WI: 36 Kansas City Steel, KS: 36 Mount Vernon...

2,940 casualties and lost 50 tanks, a similar number of guns, and 400 lorries, vital for supplies and movement. The British losses, except tank losses...

armoured vehicles by adding steel plates to cars or lorries, often armed with machine guns. These improvised vehicles included the Armadillo armoured...