{"id":11849,"date":"2023-10-06T07:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/from-the-archive\/archive-day-1914"},"modified":"2023-10-06T07:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:01:46","slug":"from-the-archive-on-this-day-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/06\/from-the-archive-on-this-day-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archive: on this day in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Armour<\/a><\/p>\n

\n Belgian forces pioneered the use of armoured cars<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cars were used for all kinds of purposes during the Great War – we took a look at exactly what<\/p>\n

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While the start of World War II is still in living memory, WW1 has been consigned to history; while most know about the Panzer and the Spitfire, the Minerva and the Taube have become quite obscure; and while we know how it played out, we\u2019re viewing it in hindsight and through distortion caused by subsequent developments.<\/p>\n

Let us, then, go back 109 years to arrive as Autocar assessed the roles that automotive vehicles were enacting in this whole new kind of warfare.<\/p>\n

Within days of Britain declaring war on Germany, we printed a form that readers could submit to \u2018lend\u2019 their cars to the army; and by September, we were giving advice on how to maintain and prepare cars for this purpose.<\/p>\n

We noted that Belgium had thus far made best use of requisitioned cars, to carry ammunition, food and more, having few vans. Soon it began removing car bodies and refitting chassis with open-truck, ambulance and armoured ones.<\/p>\n

We were particularly impressed by a form of ambulance (also used by the French) that contained four stretchers mounted on a revolving wooden frame, such that an empty one would always be behind the canvas covering\u2019s side entrance.<\/p>\n

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Minerva of Antwerp was the primary maker of armoured cars, making Belgium the first nation to deploy them in the war. Fitting a tourer chassis with a body of 5mm-thick steel and a forward-facing light machine gun created \u201cone of the most deadly weapons\u201d, with \u201cits speed and easy manipulation enabling it to make rushes, short, sharp attacks, and retire quickly\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese qualities of extreme mobility more than make up for the fact that the light, thin armour is not bulletproof at short range,\u201d claimed our contact at Minerva, adding that it was surely superior to the \u201cheavy-plated high-speed lorries\u201d favoured by neutral Italy.<\/p>\n

Germany had plenty of fighting cars too (plus lots of lorries). Our man had been struck with a large, bullet-hole-ridden Mercedes<\/a> that had been captured \u2013 but also relayed a story of enemy success: Germans had dressed as Belgians, driven into Antwerp and calmly left armed with information.<\/p>\n

Another very useful innovation came from the French: a De Dion-Bouton lorry with searchlights mounted atop it and trailers towed behind, power coming from the engine via a dynamo and cables.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Of course, combustion engines had also given rise to aeroplanes, and just 10 years after the very first heavier-than-air flight, men were shooting at each other in the skies.<\/p>\n

Victory was very hard to achieve with a pistol or rifle (the propeller-synchronisation gear for a machine gun wasn\u2019t invented until 1915) and bombing \u2013 by hand! \u2013 also\u00a0wasn\u2019t practical yet, as 4000ft was needed for safety from rifle fire. Therefore recon and the downing of airships were planes\u2019 primary purposes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Royal Flying Corps\u2019 skill, energy and perseverance has been beyond all praise,\u201d British Expeditionary Force commander Sir John French told parliament. \u201cThey have furnished me with most complete and accurate information, which has been of incalculable value in the conduct of operations. Further, by actually fighting in the air, they have succeeded in destroying five of the enemy\u2019s machines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Surely of greater concern to the Germans, though, was their oil shortage, the Allies blocking ships from the Americas and Asia. This situation would persist, while the Galician and Romanian oil fields were unable to quench the Central Powers\u2019 thirst.<\/p>\n

One of our columnists, Owen John, had volunteered to fight and reported from his training camp with optimism and patriotism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have received several letters from [readers] informing me that I have no business to use my pen to persuade those who don\u2019t want to fight to go and do what they don\u2019t want to. All I know is that it seems to me an omission of duty not to offer to help defend one\u2019s country (and, incidentally, oneself if the necessity arises),\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe this war is going to be the end of Kaiserism and all the devilish creed it implies. If this comes true, how glorious will be the fame of those who died in the killing of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Belgian forces pioneered the use of armoured cars<\/p>\n

Cars were used for all kinds of purposes during the Great War – we took a look at exactly what<\/p>\n

While the start of World War II is still in living memory, WW1 has been consigned to history; while 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