Standard Beaverette

The Standard Beaverette, officially the Car, Armoured, Light, Standard, was a British improvised armoured car of the Second World War. The first version was built in 1940 by the Standard Motor Company at the instigation of Lord Beaverbrook, then Minister of Aircraft Production, which gave it its name. It put a simple riveted hull of 11 mm steel backed by 3 inch oak planks on the chassis of the Standard Flying Fourteen saloon, open at the top and rear and armed with a Bren light machine gun fired through a slot. Later versions had all-round protection and a turret with a Bren or twin Vickers guns. Production stopped in 1942 after about 2,800 were delivered.