Daimler Dingo

The Daimler Dingo was an open-top, two-seat British scout car with four-wheel drive, which was used in World War II. Manufacturer was the British Daimler Motor Company.

The Dingo was developed following a call from 1938 and was provided by the British Army in service in 1940. He remained until replaced by the Daimler Ferret to 1952 in the British Army. The German Wehrmacht used vehicles of this type. Between 1940 and 1945 around 200 captured Daimler Dingo under the name " armored car Mk I 202 ( e)" in German units been used. Furthermore, were captured Daimler Dingos investigated by the Army Ordnance Department in detail, so in 1941, four of these scout cars at the Army Research Center sorrow village were present. In several countries it was kept until about 1975 in the troops. Between 1939 and 1945 a total number of 6626 was made ​​by the Dingo in five steadily improving versions.

It is named after the genus of an Australian wild dog. The designation for a Dingo armored land vehicle was used for the " Dingo ( scout car) " a 1942 manufactured in Australia lighter armored cars and the model ATF Dingo, from 2001 through the company Krauss -Maffei Wegmann again.

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

Dingo in Dieppe captured in Operation Operation Jubilee

Dingo in the Bovington Tank Museum