Heavily Armored Police Car Is Immune To Bandit Bullets (May, 1935)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1935
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1935
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Heavily Armored Police Car Is Immune To Bandit Bullets
IT WOULD take the most daring bandit in the world to put a bullet through the new armored car built by an American manufacturer for police work in a foreign country— for in doing so, he would have to let the auto run over him and shoot up through the floorboards. In other words, the automobile is entirely bullet-proof.
The whole body is covered with a sheet of bullet-proof steel; the windows are of inch-thick, shatter-proof glass with rubber lined gun ports on the front, sides and rear.
[...] Of course, not all of the website’s dedicated to car stuff – most of it’s vintage nerderrific ads and other sundry articles, but every now and then, they reproduce something like the Heavily Armored Police Car from 1935, the auto-engined 300 mph motorcycle, the You Drive a MILLION DOLLAR Automobile article, the SKOOT-MOBILE ad or the prediction of a bubbletop windshield from 1939. [...]
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