Wheeled Armoured Vehicles

It has become customary for wheeled armoured vehicles to attempt to incorporate commercially available driveline components such as engines and transmissions, thereby keeping development costs to a minimum.

David Brown Mill Drives

Increasingly the need arises to make these commercial components fit into envelopes designed for unique defence purposes, often in different configuration to those envisaged by ‘commercial’ component designers. David Brown has the expertise and experience to produce the bespoke gearboxes necessary to complete unusually configured drive-lines or provide final drives, transfer boxes and other intermediate solutions to match commercial components to actual operating needs.

MRAV Transmission

David Brown plays a pivotal role in an important collaborative international project to supply a modular range of vehicles to fulfil a wide variety of functions: the MRAV Multi Role Armoured Vehicle, a 30 tonne 8 wheel armoured car under development for UK, Germany and the Netherlands. David Brown has built an angle gearbox connecting through 90º the engine and laterally mounted transmission and offering the best technical solution based on knowledge of, and empathy with, armoured vehicle technology.MRAV Transmission Brochure

US Armoured Support Vehicle (ASV)– Transfer Box

The ASV configuration has become the support vehicle of choice in recent Middle Eastern conflicts. Working in hot, harsh climates, the 4x4 driveline cannot accept any compromise when working triple shifts through the day and night in a combat environment. David Brown, working closely with Cadillac-Gage, developed a unique solution to ensure the driveline was fully optimised. The return is demonstrated over and again, with complete driveline reliability, even with intensive mission use.(ASV)– Transfer Box Brochure

Powerful Brands

Screw Jack Products Benzlers Accudrive Products Cone Drive Benzlers and Cone Drive are sister companies of David Brown, also part of the Textron family. Working together enables us to offer a full range of gear products and provide global services and support.