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Where and when were beer boilers converted into armored vehicles?

In 1916, the Easter Rising broke out in Ireland against the British. The rebels quickly captured most of the government buildings in Dublin, but the British army sent an additional contingent, outnumbering the rebels by 20 times, and began to suppress the rebellion.

Lacking armored vehicles, the British solved the problem of moving around the city by assembling improvised armored vehicles from the chassis of Daimler trucks and steam boilers from the Guinness factory, in which loopholes were cut. Since the rebels did not have heavy weapons, the thickness of the steel of the boilers was sufficient protection for the soldiers inside, and the cylindrical shape also provided frequent ricochets of bullets.

After the suppression of the uprising, these machines were dismantled, returned to the plant and continued to be used for their intended purpose.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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