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  Name Fox Armoured Car
  is Vehicle yes
  Length 46 m (15 ft)
  Width 23 m (7 ft 7 in)
  Height 24 m (8 ft)
  Weight 8 t
  Suspension Wheel 4x4
  Speed 71 km/h (44 mph)
  Vehicle Range 250 km
  Primary Armament 050 in (127 mm) MG
  Secondary Armament 030 in (762 mm) MG
  Armour up to 15 mm
  Engine GMC 6-cyl Petrol
  Pw Ratio
  Crew 4


The Fox Armoured Car was a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle produced by Canada in the Second World War .


HISTORY

Built by General Motors, Canada, based on the British Humber Armoured Car . The four man crew consisted of the vehicle commander, the driver, a gunner and a wireless operator. 1506 vehicles were manufactured.

Saw operations in Italy, UK and India. After the Second World War many of them went to the Portuguese Army , which used them from 1961 to 1975 in Counterinsurgency in Angola , Guinea and Mozambique .


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