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Period advertisement for the Boyce ' Moto Meter ' temperature gauge, which was fitted to the radiators on the Packard cars and trucks.

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A particularly fine scale model of the Austin armoured car 3rd Series, on display at the Imperial War Museum.

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Another of the Imperial War Museum's models, this a superb 1/12 scale model of a Ward Car of Standard British Ambulance Train No 19, for the transport of sick and wounded from the Western Front during the First World War. The roof hinges upwards to reveal the detailed interior, showing the 36 fold-up beds that the Ward Cars were fitted with.
Each train consisted of 16 vehicles of a total length of 913 feet and an estimated weight of 440 tons. Each train contained 342 cots for patients and seats or berths for 90-100 sitting cases. There were eight ward cars, each containing 36 beds in tiers of three. The beds could be used as stretchers and were so spaced that stretchers could be placed on them. Beds in the centre and lowest tiers could could be converted into single rows of seats. Double doors near the middle of each side of the car enabled stretchers to be taken in and out conveniently. The trains electrically lighted and steam-heated, and each car was supplied with water and drinking water and equipped with electric fans.
There were also a Lying Infectious Car with 18 beds; a Sitting Infectious car, with seats and berths for 70 or 80 cases; a pharmacy car with operating table and dispensary; two kitchen cars, in part of one of which were about 20 seats for sitting sick officer cases, and a staff car for Nurses and Medical Staff and one for Personnel, which could be used as an additional Ward Car in emergency; and a Brake and Stores Van.
The staff lived permanently on the train, and accommodation was provided for 4 medical officers, 4 nursing sisters, 6 cooks and 30-36 orderlies.
Train No 19 entered service in France in February 1916, based on Great Western Railway rolling stock, and Car No 19c was one of the 8 Ward Cars.
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Ambulance Train interior.

This Ambulance Train, was photographed at Boulogne awaiting the arrival of patients for transporting back to England.

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Many thanks LF!

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Hello LF. The scale model of the Austin Armoured Car at th IWM is first class, I have not seen that one .

I have another photo of an odd Armoured Car,

The Sizaire-Berwick 'Wind Wagon' was an experimental armoured car built by the RNAS in 1915 and designed to cross soft sand. It was powered by a 110 horsepower Sunbeam aero engine which left no room for a turret, so its machine- gun was mounted next to the driver. They say the 'Wind Wagon' was never tested in Btitain but never saw action.

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The Sizaire-Berwick 'Wind Wagon'

Crimson Rambler.

Thank you for your post on the amazing Sizaire-Berwick ' Wind Waggon ', which as you say, was an interesting experimental armoured car developed by the RNAS at their Wormwood Scrubs Armoured Car Division Headquarters in 1915.

This prototype armoured car was intended for use in desert regions, where the propulsion from the rear mounted aero engine's four-blade propeller would drive the armoured car over soft sand.
The chassis was a Sizaire-Berwick 20 hp supplied by the F.W. Berwick Company, who were also responsible for fitting the 110 hp Sunbeam aero engine to the rear of the chassis.
The vehicle's armour was made by the Admiralty, with the armoured car being fitted with one forward firing Vickers-Maxim machine gun mounted next to the driver.
Although tested at Wormwood Scrubs, the experimental ' Wind Waggon ' armoured car was not produced, and never saw service.
Prior to WW1, there had been various experimental wind powered vehicles produced and tested, several of which had been made in France, and that was probably where the idea for the Sizaire-Berwick ' Wind Waggon ' originated, with the French connection coming from the Paris based Sizaire brothers, Maurice and Georges, who in 1903 founded their Sizaire-Naudin Motor Company along with a friend, Louis Naudin.
In 1912 the Sizaire brothers left Sizaire-Naudin, and in 1913 Maurice and Georges Sizaire went into a new partnership with Frederick William Berwick the founder and owner of F.W. Berwick & Co. Ltd., the London based motor car dealership with showrooms at 18 Berkeley Street, London W1, and vehicle workshops in Balham. Berwick later expanded to a factory at Highgate, and Abbey Road, Park Royal in N.W. London.
The new Sizaire-Berwick Motor Company was to produce large luxury motor cars, the chassis for which were built at the Sizaire factory outside Paris, and then shipped to England where those chassis were fitted with their motor car body made by F.W. Berwick's English coachbuilding works at Highgate.
As with most other motor car manufacturers, upon the outbreak of WW1, Sizaire-Berwick joined the war effort, and the wartime production at F.W. Berwick's Highgate factory included building truck chassis for Leyland trucks, and aero engines for de Havilland aircraft. Also, some of the Sizaire-Berwick chassis were supplied to the RNAS for their vehicles, including the chassis used on the RNAS Sizaire-Berwick ' Wind Waggon ' armoured car.
Attached is a rare photograph of F.W. Berwick and the Sizaire brothers, Maurice ( 1877 - 1970 ) and Georges ( 1880-1924 ) in one of their Sizaire-Berwick prototype motorcars.
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The stylish 1914 Sizaire-Berwick motorcar, showing the type of Sizaire-Berwick chassis used on the RNAS ' Wind Waggon ' armoured car.

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Sizaire, F.W. Berwick and Sizaire-Berwick advertisements.

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Following a court case brought against Sizaire-Berwick by Rolls Royce, which complained that the Sizaire-Berwick radiator/grill design was too similar to that of Rolls Royce, agreement was reached whereby the Sizaire-Berwick radiator grill design would not be completely flat as with the Rolls Royce, but rather would have a ' V ' shape as seen in the above Sizaire-Berwick advertisement.

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Many thanks LF for full back ground on The Sizaire-Berwick motor Company.

Crimson Rambler.

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Many thanks LF for full back ground on The Sizaire-Berwick motor Company.

Crimson Rambler.

Hope you found it interesting, there are certainly backgrounds to these old WW1 vehicles.

Regards,

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Some further examples, of vehicles fitted with a propeller to provide propulsion.

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Some further examples, of vehicles fitted with a propeller to provide propulsion.



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Another Armoured Car for Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry , the base car was an Isotta Fraschinis designed C.W. Lowther,an officer in the regiment.

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Another Armoured Car for Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry , the base car was an Isotta Fraschinis designed C.W. Lowther, an officer in the regiment.

The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry were a Territorial unit formed in April 1908, and were part of the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade.
In 1914, The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry ordered the first of two Armoured Car, which were to be paid for by private funds. Their first Armoured Car, which was completed in November 1914, was as you say, designed by C. W. Lowther using a 25 hp Isotta-Fraschini chassis with the armoured bodywork being done by Guy Lewin Ltd.
Their second Armoured Car, delivered in 1915, was again built on a 25 hp Isotta-Fraschini chassis with the bodywork also being done by Guy Lewin Ltd.
The 1915 armoured car was designed by The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Bryan Leighton, and was of a completely different design to their 1914 model, with the 1915 model having unusual exaggerated sharply pointed front and rear sections.
Lt.Col. Leighton was a qualified pilot, who also served as an RFC officer, so his knowledge of aircraft design and aerodynamics no doubt greatly influenced his armoured car's advanced aerodynamic design.
The Isotta-Fraschini Motor Company was founded in Milan, Italy in 1900 by Cesare Isotta and Vincenzo Fraschini along with Vincenzo's brothers Antonio and Oreste.
Their motorcars had an excellent reputation for quality and speed.
In 1911, at the request of the Italian Government, Isotta-Fraschini made a prototype Armoured Car for the Italian Army. This Italian Army armoured car was very different in design to those of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, which had only used the Isotta-Fraschini chassis.
Isotta-Fraschini went on to build some of the world's finest and most expensive motorcars, including the first production motorcar to be powered by a straight-eight engine, and one of the first to be fitted with four-wheel brakes.
The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry's use of the Isotta-Fraschini chassis was not the only notable adaptation of the Isotta-Fraschini chassis.
In 1914, motorcar enthusiast Lionel Martin and his business partner Robert Bamford built their first ' Special ' by dropping a 1.4-litre, Coventry-Simplex, four-cylinder engine into a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini voiturette chassis, which then became their first ' Aston Martin ' motorcar.
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The attached photograph shows the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry's second armoured car made in 1915, and designed by their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Bryan Leighton.
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Isotta-Fraschini's 1911 Armoured Car prototype, built for the Italian Army.

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Cesare Isotta and Vincenzo Fraschini, founders of the Isotta-Fraschini motorcar company.

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Isotta-Fraschini's 1911 Phaeton ' Siluro ' , and their 1912 KM model.

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In 1914, motorcar enthusiast Lionel Martin and his business partner Robert Bamford built their first ' Special ' by dropping a 1.4-litre, Coventry-Simplex, four-cylinder engine into a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini voiturette chassis, which then became their first ' Aston Martin ' motorcar.

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Isotta-Fraschini's first motorcar advertisement and the Isotta-Fraschini logo.



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An interesting article on the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, in which it refers to the the Yeomany having been raised at his own expense by Colonel Hugh Cecil Lowther Earl of Lonsdale, and I am sure the designer of the Yeomanry's first 1914 armoured car, a C. W. Lowther an officer in the Yeomanry, was probably the son of Col. Lowther :-

The Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry Regiment.

" Originally styled the Westmorland Yeomanry, it was raised at his own expense as a volunteer force in Penrith by Colonel Hugh Cecil Lowther Earl of Lonsdale and superseded the Westmorland East and West Ward Militia and the Cumberland Loyal Leath Ward Volunteers. Its formation in 1819 was largely a response to widespread fear in the wake of the 'Peterloo' incident of that year in which the Manchester Yeomanry had been called upon to put down a civil commotion following a Reform meeting. When Colonel Lowther retired to take charge of the Cumberland Militia, Edward W. Hasell took command of the Yeomanry Regiment and remained its Colonel for 50 years.

In all six troops were raised, in Kendal, Shap, and Appleby in Westmorland, and in Cumberland at Edenhall, Dalemain and Milnthorpe. They were described at that time as wearing 'Skiddaw grey trousers and scarlet jackets with headgear that was wonderful to contemplate in shape as much like a big frying pan as anything' By mid-century the regiment's uniform was one of the most striking of any Regular or Yeomanry Cavalry.

Chartist disturbances caused the Civil Power to call out the Regiment in Penrith and Carlisle in 1839. In February 1846 a dispute between two labourers working on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Hugh's Cutting at Lowther Park led to tension between English and Irish labourers. Ranged in opposing mobs they converged on Penrith where banks and shops suspended business. The Yeomanry intervened, though it took a week to end 'The Navvy Riot' which threatened 'to sack and loot the town in such a fashion as it never previously had been, not even by the moss-troopers or in the Scotch wars with England'. Surprisingly no one was killed but the violent behaviour of an English 'savage' called Hobday led to his transportation for 15 years.

The Yeomanry training took place in Kendal, Penrith and Appleby. Since the practice was to muster a few miles from the ground and march to it, when the Wigton troop was raised in 1840 it was deemed too far for marching to Kendal or Appleby and Penrith became the centre for this annual event.

At first this was held on the Race Course with the force billeted in the Penrith inns. This meant good business for the inn-keepers including Sgt. Major 'Josie' Bolshaw, proprietor of the Red Lion who had his own prescription for increasing their custom: 'give 'em salt 'addock for breakfast an they'll sup plenty ale'. In 1900 training was held on Brackenber Moor, Appleby, and later the 'Elysian Fields' at Lowther Park were made available by the Earl of Lonsdale for annual summer training camps.

The public were invited to watch military sports and crowds of spectators from the two counties assembled for 'Cavalry Sunday' during the training.

A contingent of the regiment took part in celebrations in London of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and in 1900-1902 the Yeomanry sent a company of mounted infantry to the Boer War in South Africa. In a skirmish at Faber's Put several lost their lives. They were commemorated by the granite memorial formerly in front of Penrith Town Hall now re-located in the Castle Park.

In 1911 Colonel Beddington, anxious to keep his squadron in the front line of modernity provided it with a portable radio outfit at his own expense. With the portable parts carried on horseback and the fixed part in a tent near the officers' mess it was much used on manoeuvres. In May that year a shorthand note of world news was taken from Poldhu station in Cornwall, published at the 'Observer' office in Penrith and circulated among officers and men of the regiment.

In the Great War (1914-1918) the yeomanry saw action as Divisional Cavalry at Gallipoli and in France with three of Kitchener's Army Divisions. It was reformed as a Corps Cavalry Regiment and later attached to Infantry Regiments, including the 7th. Battalion of the Border Regiment or, like the 2nd. Line, to a Cyclist Brigade. It was disbanded after the Great War. An Old Comrades Association was formed having an annual reunion and dinner at Dalemain. The force had a strong sense of tradition and loyalty and bound in comradeship countrymen and horsemen from the same district. "

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An extremely interesting biography of soldier, airman and designer of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry's 1915 Armoured Car, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Bryan Baldwin Mawddwy LEIGHTON 9th Bt. TD Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry (TF Reserve) and the Royal Flying Corps.

" Bryan Baldwin Mawddwy was born at Park Street, London on 26th November 1868, the elder son of Sir Baldwyn Leighton 8th Bt, MP, and his wife, the Hon Eleanor Warren, sister and heiress of the 3rd and last Baron de Tabley.

Educated at Radley, he came up to Christ Church in 1888. He was a very daring horseman both on the hunting field and in point-to-point racing. In 1901-04 he had his own pack of foxhounds.

On 3 December 1890, Sir Bryan married Margaret Frances Fletcher. Their elder son was born on 9 February 1892, and the younger, a year later, on 13 February 1893.

In 1891 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Shropshire Yeomanry and promoted to Lieutenant in 1895. He was in Bechuanaland in 1896-97 (medal and clasp), and was promoted to Captain the following year. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1897.

Sir Bryan joined the Americans in Spanish-American war, The New York Times of 23 April 1898 headlined: “A BARONET HERE TO FIGHT Capt. Sir Bryan Leighton of England Wants to Help Avenge the Maine”
The article announced that he was amongst the passengers who had arrived on the steamship Germanic, the previous day. He had a large amount of luggage bearing his name which was bonded through to Canada in case the American government refused his services. He said that he’d come to offer his services to the United States Government to fight the Spaniards. He withheld the name of his regiment but said that he had leave of absence.

“The aristocratic volunteer is in appearance a smooth faced youth of slight build. He wore a grey cheviot suit and a black Fedora hat.”

In his book,” The Rough Riders” published in 1899, Theodore Roosevelt said “Another English visitor was Sir Bryan Leighton, a thrice-welcome guest, for he most thoughtfully brought to me half a dozen little jars of devilled ham and potted fruit, which enabled me to summon various officers down to my tent and hold a feast.”

Sir Bryan was in South Africa in 1899 and 1900 during which time, the New York Times reported, his wife, “unusually for a woman”, was Master of his Fox Hounds.

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, he was working as a war correspondent.
"Captain Bryan Baldwin Mawddwy Leighton recently arrived at Shanghai en route to the front as correspondent to the Manchester Guardian and special artist of the Illustrated London News. This will be the fourth campaign that Sir Bryan has been through. He served in the Boer War and was in command of the first patrol of Dundonald's cavalry to enter Ladysmith with General Buller's relief force. During the rest of the war he was with the 6th Dragoons under General French When the present war broke out he was hunting moose in Alaska, but at the request of the papers mentioned he at once proceeded to Japan and after going through the necessary formalities boarded the steamer Siberia and arrived at Shanghai from whence he went to Chefoo.

“Interviewed by a representative of the Shanghai Times he said that the delay in the land fighting was due to the selling of the Japanese plan of campaign to the Russians by a Colonel of Engineers in the War Office, who with several others implicated has been executed. The price paid for the information was $100,000 and in consequence the whole plan had to be reconstructed, the Japanese troops meanwhile having to mark time." from the Straits Times, 28 May 1904.

He was awarded the Territorial Decoration on 20 June 1911. By 1913, he was with the Turkish Forces in the Balkan war, and made a film which is in the Imperial War Museum.

He was mobilised at the outbreak of war and commanded the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He passed his Aero Club Certificate on the 3 October 1913 at the Graham-White School in Hendon flying a Graham-White biplane, the certificate number is 641, and his address at the time was 8 Wellington Court, Knightsbridge SW. On 15 February 1915, he passed through the Upavon Flying School and was gazetted as Flying Officer RFC.

He saw service in France with the RFC. Taking a keen interest in the work of airmen, he himself made a number of daring parachute descents from aircraft in flight in order to test new devices.

His elder son who was twice Mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the Military Cross, died of injuries following a flying accident on 7 May 1917.

Sir Bryan died on 19 January 1919 at 8, Wellington Court, Knightsbridge, a victim of the Spanish ‘flu epidemic, after three day‘s illness. He was buried, by his own wish, in the Park at Loton and a plaque in his memory is in the church of St. Michael and All Angels, Alberbury. Shropshire. "

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A German version of a vehicle, fitted with a propeller to provide propulsion.

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