* HMS Abyssinia ( 1870 ), British armoured ship

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

A Rolls-Royce Armoured Car # Variants | Fordson armoured car waits outside Baghdad while negotiations for an armistice take place between British officials and representatives of the Iraqi rebel government.

Between the wars the British developed the Birch gun, a general purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis capable of maintaining formation with their current tanks.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

* The British Columbia Dragoons, a Canadian Forces armoured regiment based in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia

British armoured car and motorcycle at the Battle of Megiddo ( 1918 ), allowing for rapid mobile warfare.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

By the end of 1971, 29 barricades were in place to prevent access to what was known as Free Derry, 16 of them impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

In 1938 the process of mechanism began with the conversion of a full cavalry brigade ( two Indian regiments and one British ) to armoured car and tank units.

It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.

* Failing in his role as fast armoured scout to report to Jellicoe the exact position of the German ships he encountered, or to keep in contact with the German fleet while he retreated to the main British Grand Fleet.

As a counterbalance to deficiencies in manpower and morale, the British had a considerable advantage in terms of equipment, possessing machine guns, armoured cars, motor transport, wireless communications and aircraft and it was the latter that would prove decisive.

Nevertheless, as a direct result of the failings of the Dieppe raid, the British made several innovations – most notably Hobart's Funnies – specialized armoured vehicles which, in the course of the Normandy Landings, undoubtedly saved many lives on those three beachheads upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing ( Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach ).

In the late 19th century ( beginning about 1858 with the construction of prototypes by the British and French navies ), the armoured frigate was a type of ironclad warship and for a time was the most powerful type of vessel afloat.

Robcol was able to buy time, and by late afternoon the two British armoured brigades joined the battle with 4th Armoured Brigade engaging 15th Panzer and 22nd Armoured Brigade 21st Panzer respectively.

More significantly, communications with the two British armoured brigades failed, and the British armour did not move forwards to protect the infantry.

At daylight, two British armoured brigades — 2nd Armoured Brigade and the fresh 23rd Armoured Brigade — would sweep through the gap created by the infantry.

At daybreak on 22 July, the British armoured brigades again failed to advance.

The RPG-7 has been used on British armoured personal carriers and static observation points throughout the conflict, especially in Republican West Belfast and South Armagh.

The last units of British heavy cavalry switched to using armoured vehicles as late as 1938.

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

A World War 1, British, truck – mounted, QF 3 inch gun

Starting in 1941, the British developed the " en portee " method of mounting an anti-tank gun ( initially a 2 pounder ) on a truck.

In October of that same year, the Union Regnard sugar estate ( Now F. U. E. L ) received the first motorized truck of British origin, capable of transporting up to 5 tons.

A truck ( North American and Australian English ) or lorry ( British and Commonwealth English ) is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.

" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.

Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22 ° V12, Fiat had a 60 ° model 520 ( 1921-2 ), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926, Daimler ( Britain ) offered the first of a full range of sleeve valve Double Sixes, 7, 136 cc, 3, 744 cc, 5, 296 cc and 6, 511 cc versions remaining available until 1937.

* March 4 – In the United Kingdom, The Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army's Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a truck driver / mechanic.

Initially it was claimed by David Cameron that Adams had accepted the title but Downing Street has since apologised for this and Adams has publicly rejected the title stating, " I have had no truck whatsoever with these antiquated and quite bizarre aspects of the British parliamentary system ".

The couple married after Sonya finished her military service as a truck driver in the British Army during World War II.

The 21st Army Group stripped two of its divisions of their transport, and four British truck companies were loaned to the Americans.

The greasy spoon was also the mainstay of British lorry drivers who travelled the major truck roads such as the A1 and the A6 prior to the opening of the motorways, see also Transport café.

A pick-up truck version was used by the British Royal Navy for pioneering Royal Marine helicopter carrier amphibious operations aboard HMS Bulwark and Albion in the late 1950s and early 1960s, because of the payload limitations of their first large helicopters.

The design was based on a Bedford RL series British military truck.

For instance, both lift / elevator and lorry / truck are understood, although the British form is preferred.

For instance, both " lift / elevator " and " lorry / truck " are understood, although the British form is preferred.

* Fire apparatus, a fire engine or fire truck in British English

* Associated Equipment Company, better Known as AEC, a British bus and lorry ( truck ) manufacturer

In the late 1950s the British truck manufacturer ERF produced a semi-forward control HGV with a short protruding bonnet – those vehicles were also nicknamed " Sabrinas " because they had " a little more in front.

He was also associated with truck designs for Leyland Motors, and with designs for British Leyland ( including the Leyland National bus ) after the merger of Leyland and BMC.

A few, such as the British 120mm L4 MoBAT and L6 Wombat could only practically be transported by jeep or truck, or mounted on an armoured personnel carrier.

British soldiers dubbed the truck the " Bulldog Mack ", because they said it had " the tenacity of a bulldog.

Mason developed an improved design, called the Mason-Fairlie, or more commonly the Mason Bogie ( the word bogie is the British word for truck in the railroad sense ).

Roger Short MVO ( 9 December 1944 – 20 November 2003 ) was a veteran British diplomat who was killed on 20 November 2003 in a truck bombing in Istanbul while serving as the British Consul-General in Turkey.