Davidson-Cadillac 1915 Armored Car - USA
Function: / Rangefinder: / Fuel Type: / Fuel Cap.: / Fuel Cons.: / Load: / Veh.Wt:Armored Car / nil / G / 30 / 12/3 / 30kg / 1600kg
Crew: / Maintenance: / Powerplant: / Nightvision:
1+3 / 20 / Petrol / HL
Length: / Height: / Width:
4,2m / 2m / 1,4m
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15km/h / 6km/h / 24/6 / 4/1 / 60km
Config: / Suspension: / Hull Front: / Hull Side: / Hull Rear: / Turret Front: / Turret Side: / Turret Rear:
std / W:3 / 3 / 3 / 2 / - / - / -
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M1895 Colt-Browning
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History: "In June 1915, Col. Royal Davidson and 30 cadets from the Northwestern Military Academy in Highland Park, Illinois drove an armored Davidson-Cadillac and seven support vehicles from Illinois to the Panama Pacific International Exposition being held in San Francisco, California. Although plagued by rain for much of the trip, 34 four days after their start all eight vehicles arrived at the Exposition. Having achieved his goal of demonstrating that a mechanized army was in the future, the cars were shipped back by train rather than covering the distance again under their own power". The Davidson-Cadillac armored car was developed on a Cadillac chassis by Royal Page Davidson and the cadets of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. The first vehicle was developed in 1909 and by 1915 the academy had a fleet of 8 vehicles consisting of a scout car, two communications cars, a kitchen car, a hospital car, a balloon destroyer, a quartermaster's car and a fully armoured car. To convince the military that a mechanized army was the way to go, Davidson and some cadets drove the fully armoured car along with seven support cars for 34 days from the academy to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) being held in San Francisco, California.