Vickers-Peerless armored car

The Vickers-Peerless armored car was an improvised armored lorry of the 1920s that Vickers built in the United Kingdom for the Greek government. Each vehicle was made by armoring a Peerless truck, based on the American 1916 4-ton TC4 4x2 chassis with its 40 horsepower inline engine and chain-driven wheels. The crew of two, a driver and an assistant driver, sat behind the engine compartment, while the raised rear box carried up to fifteen soldiers or three machine gunners behind steel plate of 5.3 millimetres on the body and 8 millimetres on the troop box, with Hotchkiss machine guns firing through round ports. Ordered in 1923 under a contract of 7,162 pounds to armor ten lorries, the cars served with the Greek police in the civil unrest and coups of the 1920s and 1930s, and at least one was still in service supporting British troops at Thessaloniki in the Second World War. Variants differed mainly in the roof, which was open at first, then iron mesh and sometimes steel plate, and in the number of machine guns, from one to three. Nothing is known of any survivor.