meant that quite a few were built a thousand or more were built for british use only and the americans had nothing to do with it at all after that they tested them if it had been put into american service it would have been given the designation mNUMBER_TOKEN but it never was so it was always known as the t-NUMBER_TOKENeNUMBER_TOKEN now it's powered by a pair of chevrolet six cylinder engines in the back each engine drives to a high dramatic gearbox which is to say an automatic gearbox in a way capable of giving four forward and one reverse speed and it was linked to a um hydraulic thing that brought the two power units together so you had this each engine developing about NUMBER_TOKEN horsepower and both working together to drive the vehicle it had a top speed of about NUMBER_TOKEN miles an hour which is quite fast enough the only trouble with it was that from the british point of view it was quite big it towered over a small vehicle like the daimler armored car which was much more popular with the british army and this thing would have been ideal in the desert and it actually was produced too late in normandy in france and in italy it was really too large and too heavy weighs about NUMBER_TOKEN tons and was pretty well ignored from that point of view the british used them more as command vehicles than as a regular troop of armored cars they were also issued to the canadians south africans and the australians in due course and they were automatic as i say so the driver had a pretty easy job they were also paris had power assisted steering which meant the driver could handle nothing easily and that counts for quite a bit but it was the size that put people off and it rather like the british ac it tended to town above the hedges and get clobbered for that reason the structure is mainly the hull at least is mainly of welding construction with odd castings in one thing they did have was stowage for two auxiliary fuel tanks one on either side each one capable of containing about NUMBER_TOKEN gallons of petrol they were fitted to both sides of one of these vehicles to give them a longer range it's otherwise quite a good vehicle armor thickness oh about NUMBER_TOKEN millimeters at the most a little bit thicker on the turret as you'd expect but not that much because it's an armored car it's meant to be fairly light and fast rather than as a tank to slog it out so from that point of view it's fairly straightforward the tank museum is a registered charity and every purchase you make from our online shop directly supports our work we ship worldwide and if you subscribe to our email list we'll give you NUMBER_TOKEN off your next order when you finish this video go to URL_TOKEN and you'll find something you never knew you needed now there were other versions of this the british insisted on an anti-aircraft version they supplied their own version of the turret which was by fraser nash which was electrically operated and mounted twin browning machine guns now that particular version the staghoud anti-aircraft vehicle had a three-man crew it had a smaller turret than the normal snow count turret so the rest of the turret ring had to be filled in before that one was mounted and it had no machine gun
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