Lanchester 6x4 armoured car

The Lanchester 6x4 armoured car was a British armoured car with a six wheel, four driven drivetrain, produced in limited numbers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. A heavier and more rugged development of the earlier Lanchester 4x2 armoured car, it stayed in service with Territorial and colonial units until the early 1940s and fought in the Battle of Malaya. The Lanchester Motor Company won the contract in 1927, two prototypes followed in March 1928, and twenty-two Mark 1 production vehicles were ordered in July 1928, with more Mark II vehicles in 1929. Its armoured body resembled that of the Rolls-Royce armoured car, with a turret carrying one .5 inch and one .303 inch Vickers machine gun and an independently rotating cupola. It was reliable but too big, top heavy and slow for reconnaissance and ended in colonial policing.