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Девайс времён арабского восстания 1936-39. Пока одни заморачивались с бронированием грузовиков, другие - британские моряки с HMS Sussex - сочли более эффективным решением отгонять партизан при помощи 40-мм зенитного автомата ака пом-пом. Так что гантраки с ЗУ-23 итп - злостный плагиат. :)

Nine and a half platoons of seamen and RMs were landed to release the military garrison of Haifa for field operations, and lived ashore for two months. Ships' pom-poms and naval searchlights with portable generators were disembarked and mounted on commercial lorries commandeered (not without payment) from Jewish owners; two naval armoured trains entirely manned by the Navy, were fitted out and 'commissioned' as HMAT No. 1 (on the Jerusalem run) and HMAT Jordan Queen (on the smaller gauge line to the Trans-Jordan border). Pip, Squeak and Wilfred on the roads, and the more heavily armed trains, operated in the role of 'Q-ships', chiefly by night when their identity could not easily be distinguished from unarmed traffic. There were many brisk encounters, and it was in considerable measure due to the Navy-on-Wheels that the roads and railways of Palestine - some of which had been the scene of Lawrence's exploits the other way round - were kept open.
(John Litchfield, The Naval Review, Vol. 68, 1 Jan 1980)

Имелись также грузовик(и) с трёхфунтовкой и грузовик(и) с прожектором:

The Army soon produced an ancient three-pounder gun fitted on a lorry, accompanied by another lorry with a searchlight. The 3 pdr was not much good, but the searchlight was invaluable. (Peter Gretton, The Naval Review, Vol. 67, Oct 1979)

Три первых грузовика были названы Pip, Squeak и Wilfred (в честь персонажей комикса). Пип (на верхнем фото) был вооружён пом-помом, Сквик, судя по одному из фото ниже, чем-то другим (трёхфунтовкой ?).

Цитаты выше и некоторые из картинок ниже найдены mr_fix, которому спасибо.

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Crossposted to shushpanzer-ru.