Alvis Saladin

The FV601 Saladin was a six-wheeled armoured car developed by Crossley Motors and later made by Alvis, designed in 1954 to replace the AEC armoured car and serving with the British Army from 1958. It weighed 11 tonnes, had a crew of three and reached 72 km/h, and was noted for good performance in desert conditions, which won it favour with several Middle Eastern armies. Its 76 mm low-pressure rifled gun fired the same ammunition as the gun of the FV101 Scorpion. Work began in 1947; Crossley engineered and built six pre-production FV601B cars, and after Alvis modified them the FV601C went into mass production in 1958 at Coventry, continuing to 1972. It spawned the Saracen carrier.