Lancia IZ

Autoblindata Lancia IZ 1915 - 1943

1/72nd Scale

AC-30a Lancia IZ Early model, through 1917............................................$12.50 Kit

(AC-30b) Autoblindata Lancia IZ 1917-1943 Kit......... $12.50

The Lancia was the most important Italian armorured car of the Great War - it was bult in large numbers and used against the Austrian and later German forces on the front on the north-east borders of Italy. Some were captured by the Germans and used to equip some armoured care units of their own. Lancia armoured cars were used to train and equip American troops in Italy.

The crew of the vehicle consisted of the car commander, driver, three gunners and a mechanic. The car weighed about 3950 kg. loaded including 25,000 rounds of ammunition. The engine of about 60 b.h.p.(35 h.p. normal) gave the car a maximum speed of 70 k.p.h.and the car had a circuit of action of about 500 kms.

The 1917 model of the Lancia IZ armoured car was almost identical in appearance to the first type except that the small turret was eliminated and the third machine gun was mounted instead in the back of the hull, facing rearward.

Lancia IZ armoured cars were used extensivily in the Spanish Civil War and some were still in use by the Italian Army in East Africa during the Second World War.