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...
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Commons has media related to Armadillo (1940 AFV). Bedford OXA Bison concrete armoured lorry Standard Beaverette British anti-invasion preparations of World...
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the Mowag Piranha family Bison concrete armoured lorry, a British improvised mobile pillbox of 1940 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Bison, an upgrade variant of...
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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...
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Gun truck (category Improvised armoured fighting vehicles)
invasion-scare period were the Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle and the Bison concrete armoured lorries. Both were conventional trucks fitted with...
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Bedford OXA (category World War II armoured cars)
British Home Guard units until 1942. Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle Bison concrete armoured lorry Standard Beaverette Moschanskiy, I. (February 1999)...
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the turret be mounted on improvised armoured vehicles such as the Armadillo and the Bison concrete armoured lorry. Despite initial enthusiasm by those...
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regiment's initial equipment was the Bison concrete armoured lorry with extemporised armour and Standard Beaverette armoured cars handed over by 42nd Division's...
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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...
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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...
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BCL-M5 4×4 armoured personnel carrier (Algeria; modern) BDX 4×4 armoured personnel carrier (Belgium; Cold War) Bison concrete armoured lorry (United Kingdom;...
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World War II Notes See Bison concrete armoured lorry for an alternative portable airfield defence scheme, put forward by Concrete Limited. References Pickett-Hamilton...
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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...
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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...
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armoured vehicles by adding steel plates to cars or lorries, often armed with machine guns. These improvised vehicles included the Armadillo armoured...
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