S1 scout car

Scout Car S1 (American) was an armoured car that Ford Australia built for local use by the United States Army during World War II. In 1942 the United States Army Air Forces in Australia asked for a light armoured car to patrol and defend airfields, and about 40 were produced. It rode on a Ford Canadian Military Pattern F15 4x2 chassis, with a single 4x4 vehicle built, under an open topped armoured hull like that of the M3 Scout Car. A crew of five served one .50 inch heavy machine gun and two .30 inch machine guns on skate rails. The cars served in the defence of Australia and saw no combat, and as of late 2017 two were known to survive, one restored at the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Cairns and another in a private collection.