Humber Armoured Car

The Humber armoured car was one of the most widely produced British armoured cars of the Second World War. Because Guy lacked the capacity to build enough of its own armoured cars, the Rootes Group was asked to produce one, and Karrier adapted its KT 4 artillery tractor chassis to carry the Guy armoured body, with the engine moved to the rear. An order for 500 was placed in 1940 and the first deliveries were made in 1941. The vehicles were designated Armoured Car, Humber Mk 1 using the name of Humber Limited, although Karrier built them at the Luton works of Commer. The Mark III added a three-man turret, and the Mark IV, of which about 2,000 were built, carried a US 37 mm gun in place of the 15 mm Besa. It served in the North African campaign and the European theatre and, after the war, with armies including those of India, Egypt, Denmark and the Netherlands.