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→Armoured Motor Batteries and Armoured Motor Brigades MGC 1915-1921
*[http://www.king-emperor.com/Photographs%20-%20103rd%20Mahrattas%20-%20Armoured%20Cars.html Photographs: Armoured Cars on the North West Frontier 1918-1919] taken by Captain Maurice Mendes, 1st Battalion, 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry. king-emperor.com ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131122025218/http://www.king-emperor.com/page59.html archive.org link])
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000784 1976 interview with Raymond Briggs] Reel 1...Aspects of training and operations with 16th Armoured Motor Battery in India, 1918-1919: reasons for volunteering for armoured car service, 1918; driver training at Peshawar; character of vehicles, crews and unit; internal security duties. Reel 3... Period as instructor with Ahmednagar Tank School, c1921-1925: duties; problems of using armoured cars in aid of civil power. Imperial War Museum
*[httphttps://wwwcollection.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1982-02-31-174 Photograph: A motor cycle machine gun team, c 1919 North West Frontier] National Army Museum. "Two Motor Machine Gun Batteries, numbers 19 and 22, served during the 3rd Afghan War (1919) and the revolt in Waziristan (1919-1920). They were equipped with Matchless, Premier, Zenith, Enfield and Clyno motorcycles, many of which were fitted with Vickers machine-guns mounted on sidecars. Both units also had armoured car sections".*The King’s College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats website] has a [https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/d/do70-001/do70-07?searchterms=Douglas-Scott-Montagu catalogue reference] " Douglas-Scott-Montagu 7/1-67 Memoranda, Articles and Reports, mainly concerning Indian transport, also includes material on …. armoured vehicles, 1914 – 28". Contains several items on Armoured Cars including "Douglas-Scott-Montagu 7/27 1917 Jan 17 Memoranda, Articles and Reports: Proposal by Montagu for the formation of a school of instruction in Armoured Car and Motor Machine Gun duties, and for the better organization of Armoured Car Units". Also appears to include a manuscript account of service of No 1 Armoured Motor Unit, North West Frontier, India, 1915-1916, by Capt A J Clifton, 68 Durham Light Infantry, 1915-1916, dated 1917, including photographs and preface by Montagu, mentioned on the page [https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/d/do70-001/ Douglas-Scott-Montagu Brig Gen John Walter Edward, 2nd Baron], but exact catalogue no additional reference could not be located.
==Royal Tank Corps==
