British Mark I male tank Somme 25 September 1916

This is a list of combat vehicles of World War I, including conceptual, experimental, prototype, training and production vehicles. The vehicles in this list were either used in combat, produced or designed during the First World War. World War One saw the start of modern

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with an emphasis on using motor vehicles to provide support to the infantry.

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Tanks

Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of

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. They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy. The few tanks that Germany built were outnumbered by the number of French and British tanks captured and reused. ;France ;Germany ;Italy *

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Turrinelli armoured tortoise * *

Fiat 2000 The Fiat 2000 was an Italian heavy tank designed and produced by Fiat during World War I. Only two were built as it never entered serial production. It was one of the largest designs of its time. History During World War I, Italy did not field ...

‡ ;Russia * Mendeleyev tank * * Rybinsk tank † * Vezdekhod † * Vezdekhod II * ;United Kingdom ;United Kingdom & United States * Mark VIII ‡ ;United States

Armoured cars and trucks

Group of Minerva armored cars, model 1914 WW1

Most of the armoured cars of the war were produced by building armoured bodywork over commercial large car and truck chassis. ;Austria-Hungary * Austro-Daimler armoured car * Gonsior-Opp-Frank armoured car * * Junovicz armoured car * Romfell armoured car ;Belgium * Minerva armoured car * SAVA armoured car ;Canada *

Armoured Autocar The Armoured Autocar was a Canadian armoured car used as a mobile machine gun nest during the First World War. Development The Armoured Autocar was developed by Major Raymond Brutinel, who immigrated to Canada from France. Brutinel, a Capta ...

* Jeffery-Russel armoured car ;Denmark * HtK46 armoured car † ;France * Archer armoured car * Charron armoured car * Dion-Bouton armoured car 1914 † * Dion-Bouton armoured car 1916 † * Gasnier armoured car † * Hotchkiss armoured car * Latil armoured car * Panhard armoured car *

Peugeot armoured car The Peugeot armoured car was a four-wheeled armoured vehicle based on a commercial Peugeot truck that was quickly developed by the French in 1914 for use during the First World War. Design The Peugeot armoured car was built in two main versions, ...

* Renault armoured car * Renault 47mm ''autocanon'' * Vinot Deguinguand armoured car † *

White AM armoured car The White AM armoured car (officially the Automitrailleuse White or abbreviated as the White AM) was a French First World War armoured car that was built on a commercial American White Motor Company truck chassis with armoured bodies supplied ...

;Germany

Büssing A5P The Büssing A5P was an armoured car produced in Germany during World War I. History The Büssing company had received its first orders of military vehicles in 1910, producing artillery tractors and supply trailers. By November 1914, the Germa ...

* Daimler 15 * Ehrhardt E-V/4 * Mannesmann MULAG armoured truck * Marienwagen II armoured halftrack † ;Italy * Bianchi armoured car * Fiat-Terni armoured car * Lancia 1Z * Lancia 1ZM * Pavesi 35 PS armoured car ;Poland * Pilsudski armoured car ;Russia ;United Kingdom * AC armoured car † *

Austin armoured car The Austin Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced during the First World War. The vehicle is best known for its employment by the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War and by different forces in the Russian Civil War. In a ...

* Delaunay-Belleville armoured car *

Ford Model T The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relati ...

armoured car * Isotta-Fraschini armoured car *

Lanchester armoured car The Lanchester armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of the Lanchester "Sporting Forty", it saw wide service with the Royal Naval Air Service and British Army during the First World War. The Lanchester was the second mo ...

* Leyland armoured lorry * Peerless armoured car * Peerless armoured lorry *

Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry The Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry was a heavy armoured car mounting a QF 3-pounder Vickers gun, it was used by the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Design The Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry was a turreted armoured lorry based on ...

Rolls-Royce armoured car The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car was a British armoured car developed in 1914 and used during the First World War, Irish Civil War, the inter-war period in Imperial Air Control in Transjordan, Palestine and Mesopotamia, and in the early stages of the ...

Seabrook armoured lorry The Seabrook armoured lorry was a British heavy armoured car built on the chassis of an American 5-ton truck which saw service with the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Design The Seabrook was a commercially acquired lorry w ...

* Sheffield-Simplex armoured car * Sizaire-Berwick wind wagon † * Talbot armoured car * Wolseley armoured car * Wolseley CP armoured car ;United States * Davidson-Cadillac armored car * King armored car * Mack armored car † *

White armored car The White armored car was a series of armored cars developed by the White Motor Company in Cleveland, Ohio from 1915. Models * White No.1 4x2 armored car built in 1915 from US chassis fitted with armoured hull by Laffly. Used by the French Arm ...

Self-propelled artillery

;France ;Germany * A7V Flakpanzer † * Leichte Kraftwagengeschutze 7.7cm L-27 flak ;Italy * Lancia 1Z 75-27 autocannone * SPA 9000C 102-35 autocannone ;Russia * Russo Balt T 76mm AA gun British Gun Carrier Mark I - 60 pdr

;United Kingdom * Emplacement Destroyer No. 1, 1A, 2 & 3 * *

Gun Carrier Mark I The Gun Carrier Mark I was a British vehicle of the First World War. The gun carrier was designed to transport a 6-inch howitzer or a 60-pounder gun forward soon after an attack to support infantry in advanced positions. Gun carriers were first ...

- carrier based on Mark I tank for 6-inch howitzer or 60-pdr gun. * Peerless armoured AA lorry * Pierce-Arrow armoured AA lorry - 40mm QF 2-pounder gun on lorry chassis * QF 13-pounder 6 cwt AA gun on Thornycroft J lorry ;United States * Holt 55-1 3-inch AA gun † - delivered in 1917 * Holt Mark I ( 8-inch howitzer) † - 3 built and tested in 1918 * Holt Mark II ( 155mm M1918 gun) † * Holt Mark III ( 240mm howitzer) † * Holt Mark IV (240mm howitzer) † * Christie 3-inch AA gun † * Christie 8-inch self-propelled howitzer †

Armoured trains

;Austria-Hungary * MAVAG Typ AE panzerzug ;Belgium * Light armoured train ;Belgium & United Kingdom * Heavy "Anglo-Belgian" armoured train ;Germany * ''Deutsches Heer'' armoured train ;Russia * Zaamurets armoured train ;South Africa * South African Engineer Corps armoured train London and North Western Railway armoured train

London and North Western Railway armoured train

;United Kingdom * GNR(I) armoured train * LNWR armoured train ("Norma" and "Alice") *

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ...

armoured train * Simplex armoured train *

Uganda Railway The Uganda Railway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya. After a series of mergers and splits, the li ...

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Other vehicles

;Canada * Saczeany tank * RenaultTSF

;France * Aubriot Gabet armoured tractor † * Boirault machine I and II † * Breton-Prétot machine (armed tractor) † * Frot-Turmel-Laffly landship † * Renault FT TSF (radio tank) * Souain armoured tractor † ;Germany * Marienwagen I † * Orion Wagen I † * Treffas Wagen † & (ed.)
"Treffaswagen"
;Italy * ''Gussalli assault car'' † ;Russia * Tsar "tank" † British Mark IX Armoured Personnel Carrier

British Mark IX Armoured Personnel Carrier

;United Kingdom * AEC B type armoured lorry * Gun Carrier Mark II * * Killen-Strait armoured tractor † * Mark I converted to supply tank * Mark I fitted with wireless communications * Mark IX *

Pedrail Machine The Pedrail Machine was an experimental British armoured fighting vehicle of the First World War. It was intended initially to be used as an armoured personnel carrier on the Western Front, but the idea was dropped in favour of other projects. W ...

† * Salvage Machine ;United States * Holt 150 ton field monitor * * Holt G9 armored tractor † * Steam Wheel "tank" † * Studebaker supply tank †

References

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External links

Articles on WWI Tanks and Armored cars at Tank Encyclopedia
Armoured fighting vehicles of World War I

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