right this is the aec armored car it was the only diesel-powered armored car used by the british army during the second world war so in that sense it's outstanding please remember to like subscribe or click the little notification bell if you don't want to miss out on these videos and i'd just like to say thank you to all our patrons for making this possible please join them if you can now this vehicle was based on the aec matador tractor it actually i mean don't make too much of that it only has matador sized wheels and tires on it otherwise it's pretty well unique vehicle it's rear-engined for a start powered by a diesel an aec six-cylinder diesel engine of about NUMBER_TOKEN horsepower now they do say that's also the valentine engine it's not but it's very similar it's a six cylinder engine just the same but it's arranged in a rather peculiar way it's arranged at an angle it slopes down to the front a little bit that's largely because it's linked to the gearbox and that puts it in a fairly direct line with the transfer box but it also means that they can alter the rear of the vehicle to make it a little bit lower over its engine compartment which isn't a bad thing in a vehicle like this an armored car secondly the engine is put in a bit ski whiff it's a bit off-center you'd expect it to be four and a half but it's not exactly it's actually pushed a little bit to one side to avoid the differential on the back axle so in that sense also it's a little bit odd it means they'd rather force the engine in but it's all done to bring the height of the vehicle as low as possible not that it's very successful because it's quite a tall armored car but still it's an interesting concept now it means that the vehicle drives from its diesel engine through a four-speed gearbox into a transfer box which would normally give you two speeds now that transfer box is actually designed in such a way that it only brings in four-wheel drive when it's required under normal circumstances on the highway or whatever you're doing the vehicle itself drives on the front axle it's an ordinary NUMBER_TOKENxNUMBER_TOKEN but driven on the front axle only so the rear axle is brought in when it's got to go across country to make it a four wheel drive vehicle that's the purpose of the transfer box situated where it is now the other thing is that the vehicle itself the whole thing weighs about NUMBER_TOKEN and a half tons it's NUMBER_TOKEN to be exact and that means that it's quite a big and quite solid vehicle it's got NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters of armor thickness on it which is about the same as a an aNUMBER_TOKEN mark NUMBER_TOKEN tank so it's much more heavily armored most british armored cars it's armed it's got a three-man turret and armed with a six pounder gun in this this is a mark two version so it has the six pounder gun mounted there with a coaxial visa alongside it and that's the sort of the body of the vehicle and the turret now you'll notice for instance that the driver has a
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