Australian 2/7th Field Artillery Troop – Captain support team’s M3A1 Scout Car (1)

The M3 Scout Car, also known as the “White Scout Car”, is an American armored personnel carrier designed by the White Motor Company. The company responded to a 1937 call for tenders made by the US Army to equip its forces with a multi-role wheeled light armored vehicle capable of carrying seven equipped fighters whose body could be used for different purposes.

M3A1 Scout Car technical sheet

Creator: United States of America
Denomination: M3A1 Scout Car
Number of copies built: 20 918 (1940-1944)

Length: 5,62 m
Width: 2,03 m
Height: 2,11 m
Weight: 5 610 kg
Maximum Speed: 89 km/h
Range: 403 km

Armament: one 12,7 mm M2 Browning machine gun and one 7,62 mm 1919a4 Browning machine gun. Information from here.

Below with it’s cargo – the Captains Support Section

Tomorrow more of the same.

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