The designers tried to avoid vertical placed armor plates and the use of high-quality steel led to a good trade-off between weight and protection. (Stahlmantelkern) bullets from 30 meters distance. A small hatch was installed in the bottom plate, through which lachrymatory gas grenades could be thrown.
As a novel feature, the exterior of the car could be electrified so enemies or rioters could not make contact with the car. If needed, the crew could be scaled up to five people, so the two hull-mounted guns could be manned by other men. The crew consisted of at least three people, two drivers/gunners, and one commander/gunner. The machine guns in the hull had a traverse angle of 25 degrees to each side.
Additionally, an anti-aircraft machine gun could be mounted on top of the turret. This turret could be turned by pedaling so the gunner could use both hands to handle the gun. The car was armed with three machine guns, probably the Lewis M.20 6.5 mm, of which two were mounted in the hull and one in a fully rotating turret. Source: Holkema & Warendorf Publishing Design The car at the ‘Korps Rijdende Artillerie’. On 26th April 1934, the first example was shipped to the Dutch Indies by the steamship Kota Tjandi. Plans were made to deliver three more cars a year later. These cars were designed upon a Krupp chassis. In August 1933, the Dock and shipyard company Wilton-Fijenoord Limited, based in Schiedam, signed a contract with the Ministry of Colonies (Ministerie van Koloniën) to deliver three armored cars to the K.N.I.L. (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) was slightly less conservative in buying new vehicles. A tactic was developed that lighter armed armored cars should be used together with infantry to give close support, but the Royal Army ( Koninklijke Landmacht) didn’t take any big steps in acquiring new vehicles. At the end of the 1920s, the Dutch military slowly began to realise the importance of armored vehicles and their off-road capabilities.
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