Simms in response to the Second Boer War and built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim in Britain[1] Another early armoured car of the period was the French Charron, Girardot et Voigt 1902, presented at the Salon de l'Automobile et du cycle in Brussels, on 8 March 1902.

[2] The vehicle was equipped with a Hotchkiss machine gun, and with 7 mm armour for the gunner[3][4][5] although it, too, was only a prototype and never used in warfare.

[7] Also the armoured Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade was formed on August 24, 1914 and close to being assembled by that September.

This would prove fatal to Lieutenant Henkart when on September 6, 1914 he was killed by gunfire after the armoured car he was in was caught in a German ambush.

The armoured car units were mostly used for reconnaissance, infantry fire support and missions behind enemy lines.