page_title: Austin Armoured Car
section_title: Other users
hierarchical_section_title: Austin Armoured Car / Service history / Other users
caption_attribution_description: English: The «Austin-Putilovets», captured by the Poles near Bobruysk and named «Poznańczyk» (former Soviet: «Styenka Razin»).Polski: Samochód pancerny typu Austin-Putiłow, zdobyty przez Wojsko Polskie w Bobrujsku i przemianowany na «Poznańczyk» (widoczna poprzednia nazwa sowiecka «Stieńka Razin»). Русский: Захваченный около Бобруйска поляками красноармейский «Остин-Путиловец», называвшийся «Познаньчык», бывший «Стенька Разин».
context_page_description: The Austin Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced during the First World War. The vehicle is best known for its employment by the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War and by different forces in the Russian Civil War.
  In addition to the British-built Austins, a few dozens of vehicles were manufactured in Russia in 1918–20. These are usually referred to as Austin-Putilov or – if fitted with a Kégresse halftrack chassis – Austin-Kégresse.
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  Sixteen of the Austins built for Russian but not sent following the revolution were used to equip the 17th (Armoured Car) Battalion of the Tank Corps. The Vickers machine guns were exchanged for the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun, which was the standard machine gun of the British tank unit. The 17th Battalion arrived in France in April 1918. Its first operations were in support of the French Army in June. It returned to the British Army in August and was very successful at the Battle of Amiens. The Austins were towed in pairs by tanks across the mud of no-man's-land. Once they reached better ground on the other side of the lines, they ranged freely. A German Corps headquarters 10 miles back was captured and German reserves, artillery and supply lines were shot up. Having crossed the German frontier at Malmédy, Belgium, on 1 December 1918 after the Armistice, the 17th was the first British unit to enter Cologne on the Rhine on the 8th, escorting the Commanding Officer of 2nd Cavalry Brigade to negotiate Allied control of the city.
  After the war, the bodies were reused on Peerless lorry chassis. Some of these were still in service at the start of the Second World War.
  Some cars were sent to the Caspian Sea region. Austins were also used by the British in the Irish War of Independence.
  Others
  A small number of Austin model 1918s were imported by the Japanese Army, where they remained in service until the early 1930s.
  Polish Armed Forces captured up to 20 Austins in the Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. Some were subsequently employed by the Polish. Five remained in service after the war, some until the 1930s.
  Two Austins 3rd series, initially sent by the Soviets in 1918 to help the Red Guards in the Finnish Civil War, were taken over by the Finnish Army, which used them until the mid-1920s.
  Estonia used two captured Austin-Putilovs, named Tasuja and Suur Tõll.
  Latvian Army used one Austin 2nd series, named Zemgaleetis (Zemgalietis in modern spelling).
  Four Austin-Putilovs were used by the Romanian Army (see Romanian armored cars during World War II).
  2–3 cars were given by the Soviets to the Mongolian People's Army in the early 1920s.
  In 1919 four vehicles, two 2nd series and two 3rd series, were used by the German Kokampf armoured unit.
  The last active Austin was probably the vehicle employed by the Austrian Army until 1935.
  At least one car was captured at the Dobruja Front at 17 November 1916 by the Bulgarian Army.
caption: Austin-Putilovets «Poznańczyk» near Bobruysk, Polish–Soviet War 1920
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