1941, with the Arab Legion of Transjordan.
Detail.
Members of the Legion's mechanized force driving past in a Ford pick-up.
Legionnaires with their armoured cars. Note a single camouflaged car.
With the Arab Legion, a well-known picture.
An illustration from a title on 1941 Iraqi campaign. Meant to represent the Luftwaffe attack on a British column on it's way to Habbaniya in Iraq. The armoured car of the Legion is shown.
Robert Kennedy in Jerusalem while on his March 1948 visit to the British Palestine as a Boston newspaper reporter.
A close-up. Note the barbed wire on the foot path and the fortified Police checkpoint, complete with an armoured car.
An Arab member of the Auxiliary Police in Shekhem in 1948, a driver of the pictured area station's only armoured car. British had to leave the car, nicknamed 'The Pig' behind when ordered to evacuate the station, reportedly worried that it wouldn't be able to make the trip to Jerusalem with them under it's own steam.
A streetscape of central Jerusalem in May of 1948.
Entrance to the Bevingrad, the fortified administrative zone of Jerusalem in May 1947. It was so known after Ernst Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary of the day. An armoured car can be seen near a checkpoint with a loudspeaker fixed to it's turret's roof.
More of the same. Note a member of the Auxiliary Police standing in the open rear compartment of the armoured car, just like in the picture with Bob Kennedy above.
A camouflaged vehicle in Jewish hands during the 1948 War. In Jerusalem, after the first sease-fire. Compare it to the camouflaged armoured car in the earlier Legion's photo.
This shot was reportedly taken in 1939 - a fuel or water truck with the armoured cab of the strikingly similar design, the same chassis probably used as well. The car is parked in a rural area and is guarded by a member of Jewish Settlement Police accompanied by a Kibbutznik.
Another 1939 picture depicts a large crowd gathered in front of the cinema theatre in Jerusalem, the police on foot and an armoured car are present. Curiously, it's open rear compartment is filled with people out of uniform. The caption gives it an Arab demonstration. If correct, they might have probably be protesting the British White Paper on Palestine issued at the time.
Very little is known about these armoured cars. Between 6-12 were ordered in around 1940 by John Glubb for the newly formed Mechanized Force of his Arab Legion. To be constructed by Wagner's mechanical works of Jaffa, a German firm. And since they probably were of marginal military value - their armour reportedly of the "sandwich" type, they had probably been got rid of as soon as the real armour started to be made avalable to the Legion by the British Command in 1942-43. After that time they conceivably might have been passed on to the Mandate Police across the Jordan, to end their days in the hands of both Jews and Arabs in the War of 1948-49.
Detail.
Members of the Legion's mechanized force driving past in a Ford pick-up.
Legionnaires with their armoured cars. Note a single camouflaged car.
With the Arab Legion, a well-known picture.
An illustration from a title on 1941 Iraqi campaign. Meant to represent the Luftwaffe attack on a British column on it's way to Habbaniya in Iraq. The armoured car of the Legion is shown.
Robert Kennedy in Jerusalem while on his March 1948 visit to the British Palestine as a Boston newspaper reporter.
A close-up. Note the barbed wire on the foot path and the fortified Police checkpoint, complete with an armoured car.
An Arab member of the Auxiliary Police in Shekhem in 1948, a driver of the pictured area station's only armoured car. British had to leave the car, nicknamed 'The Pig' behind when ordered to evacuate the station, reportedly worried that it wouldn't be able to make the trip to Jerusalem with them under it's own steam.
A streetscape of central Jerusalem in May of 1948.
Entrance to the Bevingrad, the fortified administrative zone of Jerusalem in May 1947. It was so known after Ernst Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary of the day. An armoured car can be seen near a checkpoint with a loudspeaker fixed to it's turret's roof.
More of the same. Note a member of the Auxiliary Police standing in the open rear compartment of the armoured car, just like in the picture with Bob Kennedy above.
A camouflaged vehicle in Jewish hands during the 1948 War. In Jerusalem, after the first sease-fire. Compare it to the camouflaged armoured car in the earlier Legion's photo.
This shot was reportedly taken in 1939 - a fuel or water truck with the armoured cab of the strikingly similar design, the same chassis probably used as well. The car is parked in a rural area and is guarded by a member of Jewish Settlement Police accompanied by a Kibbutznik.
Another 1939 picture depicts a large crowd gathered in front of the cinema theatre in Jerusalem, the police on foot and an armoured car are present. Curiously, it's open rear compartment is filled with people out of uniform. The caption gives it an Arab demonstration. If correct, they might have probably be protesting the British White Paper on Palestine issued at the time.