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Not sure what kind of armoured car it is but it looks like it is armed with a Boys Anti-tank Rifle and a Vickers MG

Photo caption from AWM: "An armoured car, carrying a French flag, moving up the main Amiens Road from Warfusee Abancourt during the advance of the 15th Australian Infantry Brigade. The two soldiers on the right are unidentified."

Come si possa pensare che l'uomo si studia sempre 'giocattoli' nuovi per fare la guerra...

What a heath robinson affair this armoured car is - seems to be dustbins bolted together

This appears to be an Austin 1918 pattern car, probably belonging to the 17th (Armored Car) Battalion of the Tank Corps. This unit was in action in France from March of 1918. I don't believe the flag is a French Tricolor, but rather a two-color signal flag - probably red and white. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Armoured_Car and www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/gb/Austin_Armoured_Car.php

The account of the several 1916 Memorial Day parades in New York notes that the New York National Guard's First Armored Motor Battery would march in the Manhattan parade. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0A16F93A5B17... Another picture of this armored car appears elsewhere on the web with this caption: "Mack armored car built for the New York National Guard in 1916. Three vehicles were completed, all on different chassis, but with similar armored body." www.warwheels.net/USAArmoredCarThesisHAUGHto1940.html www.warwheels.net/images/mack1916haugh.jpg The NGNY on the side of the car indicates it is from the National Guard of New York. Another photo from a 1916 parade, perhaps this one, shows 3 different NGNY armored cars: armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-york-national... www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=481 (Identified as Mack Model AB armored car) Motor Age magazine from April, 1916, contains a complete description and photos of this vehicle. books.google.com/books?id=s1UfAQAAMAAJ&dq=mack%20Mode...

Note that this armored car has an unprotected crank starter in front. I guess if it stalled in the face of the enemy you were SOL.

Another photo with description of the car is in the Evening public ledger., May 01, 1916, Night Extra, Image 18.

The Université de Caen Basse-Normandie collection has just been added to The Commons. Here are two photos from the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie collection of the very same vehicle ("B-1") apparently made part of a feature about US troops as they deployed to France during the First World War. See: Université de Caen Basse-Normandie Photo 1A1182101_283348XI067 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/universite_caen/15244298981/]and Université de Caen Basse-Normandie Photo 1A1182101_283348XI068

Another appearance in the Commons by the New York National Guard's (NYNG) Mack AB Armored Car B-1, this time in the SMU Central University Libraries' photostream: