Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Jeffery ' Quad ' demonstration showing the vehicle's ability to climb a 49 degree gradient fully loaded. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Jeffery ' Quad ' January 1915 Advertisement. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 The Jeffery ' Quad ' 4-wheel drive general purpose vehicle. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 British ' Quad ' Armoured Cars. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 British Jeffery ' Quad ' Armoured Cars in Waziristan. Note the Jeffery ' Quad ' Armoured Car's distinctive 2 bulbous side gun ports fore and aft. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Canadian Army ' Quad ' Armoured Car, showing the Quad's 2 distinctive bulbous side gun ports fore and aft. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 French ' Quad ' trucks. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Jeffery ' Quad ' Armoured Car. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Thomas Jeffery, inventor of the ' Quad ' 4-wheel drive vehicle. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 American Jeffery ' Quad ' Armoured Car. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 9 November , 2013 Share Posted 9 November , 2013 American Army Jeffery ' Quad ' Armoured Cars. LF Post 732. I dont think that is a Jeffery. It might be a White Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 9 November , 2013 Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Camouflaged ' Quad ' Trucks. LF Post 734. Those are actually FWD trucks. Built under licence by Kissell car Co of Hartford Wisconsin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Post 732. I dont think that is a Jeffery. It might be a White Defininitely not a Jeffery Quad, it should not be in this section, it will be in a later section. Many thanks, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Whilst researching the Jeffery ' Quad ', it was very interesting to note that Thomas B. Jeffery the inventor of the 4-wheel drive ' Quad ' and founder of Jeffery Motors, was in fact born in England in 1845, at 3 Mount Pleasant, Stoke, Devon, and when aged 18 he emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, USA. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 9 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 9 November , 2013 Post 734. Those are actually FWD trucks. Built under licence by Kissell car Co of Hartford Wisconsin. They are FWD 4-wheel drive trucks, originally, I had included ' FWD ' along with some other FWD U.S. Army vehicle photos, as it was reported that when Thomas Jeffery was developing his 4-wheel drive concept vehicle he purchased and owned FWD for a short while, Jeffery found he did not like their vehicles and decided to develop his own 4-wheel drive ' Quad ' vehicle, the rest is history. Here is a photo of a FWD truck at the U.S. Army's Fort Virginia. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 Following his surviving the Lusitania sinking, and upon his return to America from Europe, Charles Jeffery sold Jeffery Motors to Charles Nash of Nash Motors, and the Quad 4-wheel drive vehicle was re-branded as the ' Nash ' Quad. The photos show Charles Jeffery ( left ) and Charles Nash, and also the new radiator grill for the ' Nash ' Quad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 The Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car At the start of WW1, the Russian Army purchased a number of four wheel drive ' Quad ' trucks from the American Jeffery Motor Company, one of these Jeffery trucks were assigned to a Russian Armoured Car Unit, where a Platoon Staff Captain, Victor Poplavko, took a keen interest in the new American four-wheel drive vehicle. Poplavko's original idea was to lightly armour the Jeffery trucks, and utilize them as recovery and support vehicles for the Platoon's other Armoured Cars, this being due to the Jeffery Quad's excellent all-terrain and towing capabilities. Poplavko soon realized that the Jeffery ' Quad ' with its excellent off-road capabilities, had the potential to make a much better Armoured Fighting Vehicle that the other Armoured Cars in the Platoon. After further field tests, Poplavko submitted plans to the Army H.Q. to redesign and convert the lightly armoured Jeffery recovery vehicle to a fully Armoured Car, which, with its 4 wheel-drive could tackle difficult terrain, barbed wire, and other battle field obstacles. In late 1916, 30 new Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Cars, constructed on the Jeffery ' Quad ' chassis, were produced in Russia at the Izhorsk factory. The Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Cars had 7-mm thick armour plating and were armed with 2 x 7.62 mm Maxim machine guns. The Jeffery chassis had semi-elliptic spring suspension, and rigid axles. The ' Buda ' engine was 4-cylinder, 32 bhp giving a speed of about 35 km/h or 20 miles per hour. The gearbox had 4 forward and 1 reverse, drive to both axles, and drum brakes on all the wheels which had full rubber tyres. The armour plated body had one door to the combat compartment, and an armoured hatch to protect the radiator. The combat compartment had 4 machinegun ports, one on each wall. The driver had a viewing window with an armoured hatch cover. There was a crew of 4, consisting of an Armoured Car Commander, 2 gunners and a driver. The Russians used their Poplavko-Jeffrey Armoured Cars well into the 1920's, and until spares ran out. The Germans captured several Poplavko-Jeffrey Armoured Cars, and found them to be excellent vehicles with some ending up in Berlin, where in 1919 they were used by the German Freikorps. Photo shows Victor Poplavko exiting a Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car following one the vehicle's trials. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 The Russians, filming the testing of the Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car traversing barbed wire obstacles. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 A Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 The Poplavko- Jeffery Armoured Car. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 A German photograph taken of captured Russian vehicles at Tarnopol ( Ukraine ). To the right of the photo are two Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Cars, and interestingly, on the far left of the photo ( to the left of the Austin Armoured Car ) is one of the original unconverted Jeffery ' Quad ' trucks. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 Great photograph of a large German column passing an abandoned Russian Poplavko- Jeffery Armoured Car, somewhere on the Eastern Front. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 An abandoned Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car, which could be the same Russian vehicle photographed ( previous post # 747 ), after the German column had passed. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 10 November , 2013 Share Posted 10 November , 2013 Great photograph of a large German column passing an abandoned Russian Poplavko- Jeffery Armoured Car, somewhere on the Eastern Front. An abandoned Poplavko-Jeffery Armoured Car, which could be the same Russian vehicle photographed ( previous post # 747 ), after the German column had passed. It's definitely the same car - same damage to the rear mud-guard, same damage to the front armour, lens cover on the lamp on top open in both shots, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 10 November , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 November , 2013 It's definitely the same car - same damage to the rear mud-guard, same damage to the front armour, lens cover on the lamp on top open in both shots, etc. Thanks Andrew, I thought it was the same vehicle. Regards, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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