T17 Deerhound

The T17 armored car, sometimes called the M5 medium armored car and known to the British as the Deerhound, was an American six wheeled armored car produced during the Second World War. Ford developed it as one of two designs submitted to meet a 1941 Ordnance Department requirement for a medium armored car, the other being the Chevrolet four wheel drive T17E1. Contracts for 2,260 and then 1,500 T17s followed, but the Palmer Board of late 1942 recommended ending all programs except the Ford T22, which entered service as the M8 Greyhound. The British trials of February 1943 favoured the Chevrolet design, yet the army let Ford finish 250 T17s as a stopgap, 32 built in 1942 and 218 in 1943. They lost their 37 mm guns and went to the Military Police Corps for patrol duty in the United States. The turreted 6x6 had a crew of five and a Rock Island Arsenal turret.