Davidson-Cadillac armored car

The Davidson-Cadillac armored car was developed on a Cadillac chassis by Royal Page Davidson and the cadets of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. It was the first all-around armored car developed in the United States.^[1] To convince the military that a mechanized army was the way to go, Davidson and some cadets drove the fully armoured car along with seven support cars for 34 days from the academy to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) being held in San Francisco, California.^[2] While not accepted by the military, it was used (along with other cars) by the cadets until 1927.^[3]

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• Delta Upsilon fraternity (1902), The Delta Upsilon Decennial Catalogue [1903]
• Hunnicutt, R.P., Armored Car: A History of American Wheeled Combat Vehicle, Presidio Press (2002), ISBN 0-89141-777-X

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