Editing Armored car (military) (section)

===First armoured cars===
At the beginning of the 20th century, the first military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.
[[File:Simms Motor War Car 1902.jpg|thumb|left|[[Frederick Richard Simms|F.R. Simms]]' 1902 [[Motor War Car]], the first armored car to be built]]
The first armored car was the [[Motor War Car|Simms' Motor War Car]], designed by [[Frederick Richard Simms|F.R. Simms]] and built by [[Vickers#Vickers, Sons & Maxim|Vickers, Sons & Maxim]] of [[Barrow-in-Furness|Barrow]] on a special [[Coventry]]-built [[Daimler Company|Daimler]] chassis<ref name=DCMB /> with a [[Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft|German-built Daimler]] motor in 1899.<ref name=DCMB /> and a single prototype was ordered in April 1899<ref name="DCMB">{{cite book| author = Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu of Beaulieu|author2=Lord Montagu|author3=David Burgess Wise| title = Daimler Century: The Full History of Britain's Oldest Car Maker| year = 1995| publisher = Haynes Publications| isbn = 978-1-85260-494-3 }}</ref> The prototype was finished in 1902,<ref name=DCMB /> too late to be used during the [[Boer War]].

The vehicle had Vickers armor, {{convert|6|mm|in|abbr=on}} thick, and was powered by a four-cylinder {{convert|3.3|L|cuin|abbr=on}}<ref name=DCMB /> {{convert|16|hp|abbr=on}} Cannstatt Daimler engine, giving it a maximum speed of around {{convert|9|mph|abbr=on}}. The armament, consisting of two [[Maxim gun]]s, was carried in two turrets with 360° traverse.<ref>{{cite book|last=Macksey|first=Kenneth|title=The Guinness Book of Tank Facts and Feats|year=1980|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Limited|isbn=0-85112-204-3|pages=256}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer|title=The European Powers in the First World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gv3GEyB19wIC&pg=PA65|year=1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-8153-3351-X|pages=816}}</ref> It had a crew of four. Simms' Motor War Car was presented at [[the Crystal Palace]], [[London]], in April 1902.<ref>''Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the World'', Duncan, p.3</ref>

Another early armored car of the period was the French [[Charron, Girardot et Voigt 1902]], presented at the ''Salon de l'Automobile et du cycle'' in [[Brussels]], on 8 March 1902.<ref>{{cite book| last = Gougaud| first = Alain| title = L'aube de la gloire: les autos mitrailleuses et les chars français pendant la Grande Guerre, histoire technique et militaire, arme blindée, cavalerie, chars, Musée des blindés| year = 1987| isbn = 978-2-904255-02-1| page = 11 | publisher = Société OCEBUR}}</ref> The vehicle was equipped with a [[Hotchkiss machine gun]], and with {{convert|7|mm|in|abbr=on}} armour for the gunner.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PknxxLTNhU8C&pg=PA5|title=Early Armoured Cars|first=E.|last=Bartholomew|date=1 January 1988|publisher=Bloomsbury USA|isbn=9780852639085|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>Gougaud, p.11-12</ref>

One of the first operational armored cars with four wheel (4x4) drive and partly enclosed rotating turret, was the Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen built by [[Austro-Daimler]] in 1904. It was armored with {{convert|3-3.5|mm|in|abbr=on}} thick curved plates over the body (drive space and engine) and had a {{convert|4|mm|in|abbr=on}} thick dome-shaped rotating turret that housed one or two machine-guns. It had a four-cylinder {{convert|35|hp|abbr=on}} {{convert|4.4|L|cuin|abbr=on}} engine giving it average cross country performance. Both the driver and co-driver had adjustable seats enabling them to raise them to see out of the roof of the drive compartment as needed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/austria-hungary/Austro-Daimler_Panzerwagen.php|title=Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen (1904)|website=www.tanks-encyclopedia.com|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429123454/http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/austria-hungary/Austro-Daimler_Panzerwagen.php|archive-date=2017-04-29}}</ref> 

The Spanish [[Schneider-Brillié model 1909|Schneider-Brillié]] was the first armored vehicle to be used in combat, being first used in the [[Kert campaign|Kert Campaign]]. The vehicle was equipped with two machineguns and built from a bus chassis.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Montes |first=Gareth Lynn |date=2018-12-20 |title=Blindado Schneider-Brillié |url=https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1-spain-blindado-schneider-brillie/ |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=Tank Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}</ref> 

An  armored car known as the <nowiki>''Death Special''</nowiki> was built at the CFI plant in [[Pueblo, Colorado|Pueblo]] and used by the Badlwin-Felts detective agency during the [[Colorado Coalfield War]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Program |first=Colorado Digitization |title=Colorado Coal Field War Project |url=https://www.du.edu/ludlow/gallery2.html |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=www.du.edu |language=EN}}</ref> [[File:Austro-daimler-AFV.jpg|thumb|right|Austro-Daimler four-wheel-drive Armoured Car (1904)]]