Morris Light Reconnaissance Car

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Morris Light Reconnaissance Car
Morris LRC of the RAF Regiment, Tunisia, 30 March 1943.
Specifications
Weight	3.7 t
Length	4.06 m
Width	2.03 m
Height	1.88 m
Crew	3
Armor	8-14 mm
Primary armament	Boys anti-tank rifle
Secondary armament	7.7 mm Bren machine gun
Engine	4-cyl. gasoline 72 hp (54 kW)
Power/weight	24 hp/tonne
Suspension	Mk I: 4 x 2 wheel Mk II: 4 x 4 wheel
Operational range	385 km or 240 m
Speed	80 km/h or 50mph

Morris Light Reconnaissance Car was a British armoured car produced during the World War II.

[edit] History

Morris LRC was an armoured car built by Morris Motor Company. The vehicle had an unusual internal arrangement, with three-man crew sitting side by side by side with the driver in the middle, a crewman manning a small multi-sided turret mounting Bren light machine gun at the right side, and another with Boys .55" anti tank rifle (mounted in brackets in the hatches on the hull roof) and access to radio set at the left. From 1940 to 1944 over 2200 were built.

The vehicle was used in Africa, Italy and in the Northern Europe. Some served with the RAF Regiment. Some were given to Polish units.

One of the surviving vehicles is on display at the Duxford Imperial War Museum, another at the Bovington Tank Museum.

RAF Morris LRC on an airfield in the Azores, January 1944.

[edit] Variants

• Mk I - original version.
  • Mk I OP - observation post version. No turret. Equipped with two rangefinders.
• Mk II - four-by-four chassis.
• Morris Experimental Tank - had two turrets. Never reached production.

[edit] References and external links

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Morris Light Reconnaissance Car

• George Forty - World War Two Armoured Fighting Vehicles and Self-Propelled Artillery, Osprey Publishing 1996, ISBN 1-85532-582-9.
• I. Moschanskiy - Armored vehicles of the Great Britain 1939-1945 part 2, Modelist-Konstruktor, Bronekollektsiya 1999-02 (И. Мощанский - Бронетанковая техника Великобритании 1939-1945 часть 2, Моделист-Конструктор, Бронеколлекция 1999-02).
• WWIIvehicles
• Missing-lynx.com
• Morris LRC website

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