The Jeffery armored car, officially Armored Car No. 1, was an early United States Army armored vehicle completed in 1915. The Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, supplied the chassis, suspension and engine from its four-wheel-drive Jeffery Quad truck, while the armored hull came from the Rock Island Arsenal. Reference sources describe a crew of four and two turrets carrying .30 caliber Benet-Mercie machine guns, with two spare guns carried. The car was used for training with General John Pershing's 1916 expedition against Pancho Villa, and no record survives of it being used in fighting. The name is also applied to related armored cars built on the same four-wheel-drive Jeffery chassis by others: the Russel company in Canada built a number that served in Canada, the United Kingdom and British India, and the Ukrainian officer Victor Poplavko built a different Jeffery-Poplavko car in Russia.
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Engine Class EngineBuda HU four-cylinder L-head petrol engine 1 Connections
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The Jeffery Armored Car No.1 was developed by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915 with a hull from the Rock Island Arsenal.
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The Jeffery armored car was an armored car developed by the US and Canada.
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1. AFV Database: Armored Car Number 1
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The armored car Number 1 was based on the Jeffery Quad truck chassis.
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Buda HU; 4 cylinder, 4 cycle, vertical L-head gasoline
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First Produced/Service Dates: 1915
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Armored Car No. 1, maker
The Jeffery Armored Car No.1 was developed by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915 with a hull from the Rock Island Arsenal.
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The Jeffery armored car was an armored car developed by the US and Canada.
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The Jeffery armored car was an armored car developed by the US and Canada.
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The Jeffery armored car was an armored car developed by the US and Canada.
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