Please Support our Sponsors

Lanchester Admiralty Turreted Pattern* Armored Car

Specifications

Country of Origin/Used by:	Great Britain (Belgium & Russia as well)
First Produced/Service Dates:	1915
Manufactured by:	Lanchester Motor Company
Crew:	4
Armament:	Turret: (1) Maxim .303 Machine Gun (Early Vehicles) or Vickers .303 MG (Later Vehicles)**; Stowed Inside: (1) .303 Lewis MG which could be fired from pistol ports.
Engine:	6 Cylinder Gasoline
Miscellaneous Info:	Following the first standardized armored cars designed by the Admiralty (Rolls-Royce/Talbot/Wolseley First Pattern Armored Cars) at the beginning of World War One, a new design of armored car was put forth. Among other things, the new vehicles were fitted with a new armored hull, a fully enclosed crew compartment and a rotating turret which mounted a machine gun. The Lanchester Armored Car was one of those new "Admiralty Turreted" Pattern* vehicles. The other vehicles fitted with the Admiralty Turreted Pattern improvements included the Delaunay-Belleville, Rolls-Royce 1914 Pattern and Talbot Armored Cars. The 4x2 Lanchester Armored Cars were based on the slightly upgraded "Sporting 40" touring car chassis and design. The Lanchesters were used mostly by the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), however a few also saw service with the Army, as well as with Belgian and Russian forces.  Although some sources state that the Belgian and Russian vehicles were of a slightly different design than the British machines, others state they were not.  However, we do know that many of the Russian vehicles had a few slight modifications made to the cars, including an added turret cupola and side mounted machine gun shields. * The nomenclature "Admiralty Turreted Pattern" was normally omitted when referencing the vehicle.  It was simply the "Lanchester Armored Car". ** A number of the Russian vehicles also had the turret machine gun replaced with a 37mm Cannon, thought to be a Hotchkiss Naval Gun.
Data Sheet Available:	None Available

Photos

References Available

Online

Printed

Reference	Author
AFV Plans: 1914-1938 Armored Fighting Vehicles (Stackpole Books)	George Bradford
A Photo History of Armoured Cars In Two World Wars	George Forty
British Armoured Cars: 1914-1945	B.T. White
Early Armoured Cars (AFV Profile #9)	Major General N.W. Duncan
Early Armoured Cars (Shire Album #209)	E. Bartholomew
Encyclopedia of Armoured Cars	Duncan Crow & Robert J. Icks
"Pilot's Pick-Up" (Covers a Build of the 1/35 Copper State Models' Lanchester 4x2 Armored Car kit) (May 2019 Issue of Airfix Model World Magazine)	Mike Grant
Talbot in the First World War (Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Register, Ltd)	Stephen Lally & John Tomsett
The Royal Armoured Corps Tank Museum: Armoured Cars (1900-1963)
War Cars: British Armoured Cars in the First World War	David Fletcher
"Work of Genius" -  (October Issue of Classic Military Vehicle Magazine)	David Fletcher

Hobby Modeling

Kits and Accessories

Model Photos