| Rover Armoured Car | Related page: Dingo light scout car. | ||
| Based on a Ford cab 12 F60L chassis, the Australian Rover Armoured car was not a big success, being overweight and having poor cross-country performance, only 238 were built from late 1941. There were two basic variants, the Mk 1, or long wheelbase and Mk2 which used a shortened F60L chassis of 134 1/4".
With a crew of 5 they earned the knickname of "mobile slit trench" because of their appearance. Their main use was in crew training. |
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| Late pattern Rover dash. Early models had standard cab 12 type switchplates. | |||
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| From Stellan Bojerud comes this image of another Rover, unfortunately the ARN isn't legible. | |||
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| John Belfield has the remains of two Rovers, from wich he plans to build one example. | |||
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| Now in Adelaide, these pictures of Colin Anderson's cosmetically restored Rover were taken at his auction in 2003. | |||
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| It has since been restored in Adelaide and pictures can be seen on page 2 of Rover armoured cars. | |||