Guy Lizard

Place of origin	United Kingdom
Service history
Used by	British Army
Wars	Second World War
Production history
Manufacturer	Guy Motors
Produced	1940-1941
No. built	21
Specifications

Engine	Gardner 5-cylinder diesel
Drive	4x4

The Guy Lizard Armoured Command Vehicle was a British command vehicle built during Second World War.

In May and June 1940, the Headquarters 1st Armoured Division with the British Expeditionary Force in France were mounted in mild steel prototype and wooden mock-up armoured command vehicles, but later in the year the first armoured steel armoured command vehicles were produced by Guy Motors on their Lizard 4x4 chassis.^[1] Twenty-one units were produced,^[2] and by early 1941 some were issued to the Headquarters, 7th Armoured Division in the North African Campaign as well as some formations within the United Kingdom.^[1] Guy was unable to continue production so a new design was prepared based on the AEC Matador, which became the AEC Armoured Command Vehicle.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c White, B. T. (1970). British tanks and fighting vehicles: 1914-1945. London: Ian Allan. p. 156. ISBN 0-7110-0123-5.
^ "Guy Motors Limited: World War 2". Wolverhampton History & Heritage Website. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

British Commonwealth armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War

Tanks

Light tanks	Light tank Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, Mk IV and Mk V Light tank Mk VI Light tank Mk VII Tetrarch Light tank Mk VIII 'Harry Hopkins' Vickers 6-ton M3/M5 Stuart * M22 Locust * M24 Chaffee *
Cruiser tanks	Cruiser Mk I Cruiser Mk II Cruiser Mk III Cruiser Mk IV Covenanter Crusader Cavalier Centaur and Cromwell Challenger Comet Ram ‡ Sentinel †
Infantry tanks	Matilda I Matilda II Valentine Churchill
Medium tanks	Grant/Lee * Grizzly I ‡ Sherman * Sherman Firefly Vickers Medium Mark II

Self-propelled
artillery

field	Bishop Priest* Sexton ‡
anti-tank	Deacon 17pdr SP Achilles Archer M10 tank destroyer *

Armoured personnel
carriers

Scout cars and
armoured cars

Scout cars	Daimler Dingo Dingo Scout Car † Humber Scout Car Lynx Scout Car ‡ S1 Scout Car †
Armoured cars	AEC Armoured Car Boarhound Armoured Car * Coventry Armoured Car Daimler Armoured Car Fox Armoured Car ‡ Greyhound Armoured Car * Guy Armoured Car Humber Armoured Car Indian Pattern Carrier § Lanchester 6×4 armoured car Marmon-Herrington Armoured Cars ^SA Morris CS9 Rhino Heavy Armoured Car † Rolls-Royce Armoured Car Rover Light Armoured Car † Staghound Armoured Car * Standard Beaverette
Reconnaissance cars	Humber Light Reconnaissance Car Morris Light Reconnaissance Car Otter Light Reconnaissance Car ‡

Armoured command
vehicles

Armoured trucks

Experimental vehicles

Key: * American lend-lease, † Australian, ‡ Canadian, § Indian, SA South African, ¶ New Zealand, ^v field conversions of vehicles of various origins

Background: British armoured fighting vehicle production during World War II, Tanks in the British Army