Early Improvised Armed Vehicles Pre-1945

Improvised armed vehicles were present before the World Wars, but were mostly small scale experiments. They saw use on the Western Front and examples were built as an attempt to work around the trench warfare that soon set in, but it was in the desert that they had the largest amount of use and successful operations, with some being so successful they became formalised, standardised and adopted within military forces, notably the Rolls-Royce Armoured Car which was an improved and expanded vehicle based on a Rolls-Royce chassis. 

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