has anyone got any info about the fox armoured car in service.

i know they have now been withdrawn, and i can find almost no details of their use,

which regiments used them, any overseas service?

NI, BATUS etc?

cheers

joe

Hi there
You may be able to find out something from these pics

Fox

HTH
Pete

I'm not exactly sure when the Fox was withdrawn from service. However, many of the turrets have been mounted on old Scorpion hulls resulting the hybrid vehicle 'Sabre'. I have pictures of the Fox serving with the British Army of the Rhine as a light recon vehicle and at one vehicles were sent to Northern Ireland to help with the troubles.

A few good references I have come across would include the following

British Armoured Cars Since 1945 - Military Vehicles fotofax - Simon Dunstan (OOP)

Britsh Army Fighting Vehicles 9145 to the present - Tanks Illustrated #12 - Simon Dunstan (OOP)

Scorpion the CVR(T) range - Tanks Illustrated #22 - Simon Dunstan (OOP)

Europa Militaria - British Army of the Rhine - Carl Schulze

The first three titles are out of print (OOP) but well worth tracking down on eBay, bookfinder.com, Barns and Noble (used book search) or Amazon (used book search).

I hope that helps.

Cheers - Dan

Concord's 'Armour of the West' has 2 Fox pictures during Certain Shield '91 with NORTHAG in Northern Germany. Reg # 09FD24 and it says it's with the Yeomanry territorial forces(TA?). Also one of the Wessex Regiment during Bold Grouse. Other reg #s 09FD78, 01GM30, 10FD39, 10FD71 and 01GM30.

The book mentions they are used in regular and TA forces including the Berlin brigade.

Paul

it was mostly used by TA yeomanry Sqns and the kyle&carrick (ayrshire) yemonary had them still in 90-91 bovington has a interesting one in the berlin bde colours with a screen
at the front which when pulled up looks like a garade door btw accurate armour do one for around £50

thanks for the info,

i was thinking of buying the AA kit,

i was already aware of the sabre, but info on the fox is very hard to come by. ill look up those books mentioned too.

cheers

joe