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Standard Car 4×2
Image illustrative de l’article Standard Beaverette
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Main Features
Crew 3
Length Mk I: 4,11 m

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MK 3: 3,10 m

Width Mk I: 1,60 m

MK 3: 1,73 m

Height Mk I: 1,52 m

MK 3: 2,16 m

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Mass in combat Mk I: 2 t

Mk III: 2,6 t

Shielding (thickness/tilt)
Shielding MK III: up to 9 mm

MK IV: up to 12 mm

Armament
Main weaponry Bren-machine gunner or two heavy machine guns vickers in 0.303 caliber tandem (7.7 mm)
Mobility
Engine petrol engine, 4 cylinders
Power 46 CH (34 kW)
Suspension 4×2, slats springs
Road speed Mk iii: So km paysor: 26 km
Mass power 17-23 ch/tonne
Autonomy MK II :00 k k
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The Standard Beaverette , officially called Standard Car 4×2 or standard light armored car, but better known under its nickname from the name of Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aeronautical Production (in) , this British automaker was produced during the Second World War.

The first version of the vehicle was built in 1940 by the Motor Company Standard. It is based on a commercial vehicle chassis, on which a riveted shield has been mounted. The eleven millimeter thick steel was plated on oak boards three inch thick [ first ] . The shell was open up and back. The armament consisted of Brena light machine gun that could fire through a slit in the shielding of the glacis. The following versions received a peripheral shielding and a turret machine gun, namely a Bren-gunner rifle sheltered by a closed structure or a pair of mitrailleuses vickers combined with an open roof. Some vehicles had boys anti -tank rifles on their board. Some had type radio stations n O 11 or n O 19. Production was arrested in 1942. About 2,800 copies were delivered.

The beavette was used by the British army and the Royal Air Force for the Home Guard and training. The vehicle has the reputation of suffering from excessive weight and being difficult to maneuver.

One of the vehicles that have survived, an MK III, is exposed to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.

  • Mk I, the original version.
  • MK II, with peripheral shielding and a grille moved from a vertical position to a horizontal.
  • MK III Beaverbug, with a shortcut chassis, a redesigned shell without curved front wing, with a shield on top and a machine gun turret.
  • MK IV, with the shielding of the redrawn glacis to improve visibility.

A similar vehicle, known as the Beavette (NZ), was made in the workshops of the Neozélander railways, in Hutt Valley. The vehicle used a 3/4 Ford or Canadian military truck chassis pattern truck (in) and shielding plates recovered from ships “Port Bowen” and “Mokoia”. The vehicle, built in 208 copies, welcomed a crew of four men [ 2 ] .

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  • George Forty – World War Two Armoured Fighting Vehicles and Self-Propelled Artillery , Osprey Publishing 1996, (ISBN  978-1-85532-582-1 ) .
  • I. moschanskiy – Armored vehicles of the Great Britain 1939-1945 part 2 , Modelist-Konstruktor, Bronekollektsiya 1999-02 (I. Washchansky- British armored equipment 1939-1945 Part 2 , Modelist constructor, arononcolletics 1999-02).

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