In January 1933 the army examined options for a new armoured fighting vehicle capable of countering a tank attack, during the assumed scenario of a resumed war with Britain. They were both armed with a Madsen 20 mm cannon and a Madsen. The second Landsverk L60 arrived in 1936. The first Irish Landsverk L60 light tank was delivered in 1935 and joined Ireland's only other tank the Vickers Mk. When the tank was scrapped in 1940 the 6 pounder gun was removed and used as an anti-tank weapon. It was developed from the Vickers Medium Mark II tank but had a more powerful, water cooled, rear mounted, 6-cylinder Sunbeam Amazon petrol engine, developing 170 bhp at 2100 rpm and a 6 pdr gun was fitted. D was a one-off design built for the Irish Free State and delivered in 1929. As many as fifty Lancias were fitted with railway wheels and used by the Railway Protection, Repair and Maintenance Corps for railway patrols. 111 Lancias were received by the Irish National Army and all were disposed of by 1937. The Lancia armoured cars were built by the Great Southern and Western Railway workshops, Dublin, in 1921 for the Royal Irish Constabulary. A single replica has been preserved as part of the Curragh Cavalry Collection The fourteen old Irish Peerless turrets and its Hotchkiss machine guns were fitted to Irish built vehicles in 1940 called the Ford Mk V Armoured Car. This new vehicle was known as the Leyland Armoured Car and remained in Irish service until the early 1980s. A year later their twin turrets were replaced by a single Landsverk L60 tank turret. In 1935, 4 Irish Peerless armoured hulls were mounted on modified Leyland Terrier 6x4 chassis. The Peerless armoured cars were fitted with two turrets each both armed with a single Hotchkiss machine gun. ![]() The Irish National Army received seven Peerless armoured cars during the Irish Civil War and these were used by the Irish Defence Forces up until 1932. ![]() Peerless armoured car in County Cork during the civil war
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