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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:

Looks like the mass simulator parts flew forward during a braking test.