Bulletproof Body Turns Any Auto into an Armored Car (Dec, 1940)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1940
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1940
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Bulletproof Body Turns Any Auto into an Armored Car
Every automobile in the United States is potentially an armored car, under a plan recently proposed to aid the national defense program. The scheme would provide tanklike bodies of half-inch steel which could be speedily mounted on the chassis of standard cars. Swarms of these “minute man tanks,” the proponents claim, would prove an invaluable aid in combating invaders and parachute troops.
Sure, add a couple of thousand pounds to a car’s suspension, make it almost impossible to see out, and then take it into hostile territory…
Comment by Stannous — November 28, 2006 @ 11:30 am
In This Case, ‘Model A’ Stands for Armored…
From the “A Tank in Every Driveway and two Chickens in Every Pot” school of thought comes this not-necessarily-brilliant idea. But we do like that they’re called “minute man tanks”…we could totally see Watt driving one of these around……
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