Daimler dingo

Daimler dingo
General properties
crew	2 (commander, driver)
length	3.18 m
width	1.71 m
height	1.50 m
Dimensions	3.048 t
Armor and armament
Armor	up to 30 mm
Main armament	1 × Bren LMG .303 or anti-tank rifle Boys
agility
drive	Petrol engine with a displacement of around 2,500 cm³ 41 kW (56 PS)
Top speed	88 km / h (road)
Power / weight	18.4 hp / t
Range	322 km

The Daimler Dingo was an open top two-seater British reconnaissance tank with all-wheel drive that was used in World War II . The manufacturer was the British Daimler Motor Company .

The Dingo was developed following a tender in 1938 and entered service by the British Army in 1940. It remained in service in the British Army until 1952 , when it was replaced by the Daimler Ferret . The German Wehrmacht also used vehicles of this type. Between 1940 and 1945 around 200 captured Daimler Dingo under the designation "Panzerspähwagen Mk I 202 (e)" were used by German units. In addition, captured Daimler dingoes were examined in detail by the Army Weapons Office , so in 1941 four of these scout cars were available at the Kummersdorf Army Research Institute . It was held in the troops in various states until around 1975. Between 1939 and 1945, a total of 6626 units of the Dingo was produced in five continuously improving variants.

Namesake is the genus of an Australian wild dog. The designation “Dingo” for an armored land vehicle was used again for the light armored car “Dingo (scout car)” manufactured in Australia in 1942 and for the ATF Dingo model from 2001 by the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann company.

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  Daimler Dingo on a skill drive.

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  Dingo variant Ford Lynx Mk I in the Yad La-Shiryon Museum, Israel

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  Dingo in Dieppe captured in Operation Jubilee

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  Dingo at the Bovington Tank Museum

Lancia autoblinda Lince

From 1942 the manufacturer Lancia produced a replica of the Dingo for the Italian army. The replica was named Lince (to German lynx) . Around 260 vehicles were built that were used by the Italian Social Republic .

literature

• George Forty: World War Two Armored Fighting Vehicles and Self-Propelled Artillery. Osprey Publishing, 1996, ISBN 978-1-85532-582-1 .

Web links

Commons : Daimler Scout Car  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Daimler Dingo in "The Tank Museum"
• Dingo variant Ford Lynx Mk I at mapleleafup.org
• Datasheet Dingo at wwiivehicles.com
• Historical documents and data on dingo development

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexander Lüdeke: Typenkompass - captured tanks of the Wehrmacht. Motorbuch-Verlag, p. 7.
2. ↑ Michael K. Cecil: Australian Military Equipment Profiles. Vol. 3 Australian Scout and Armored Cars 1933 to 1945. 1993 Australian Military Equipment Profiles, ISBN 978-0-646-14611-9