In what battle were motorized vehicles first used?

Dreamcoat

I believe armoured cars were being developed for the Crimean War, but it finished before they could be put into action. Motorized vehicles appear to have been first used in World War I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_fighting_vehicle Nov 30 12, 2:47 AM

rustic_les

Artillery tractors were used as early as 1914 in WWI. They were based on earlier designs from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_tractor Nov 30 12, 5:50 AM

sportsherald

It wasn't used in battle at the time, but the first "automobile" is considered by many to be the steam-poered artillery wagon designed by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot: "Cugnot was one of the first to employ successfully a device for converting the reciprocating motion of a steam piston into rotary motion by means of a ratchet arrangement. A small version of his three-wheeled fardier à vapeur ("steam dray") ran in 1769. (A fardier was a massively built two-wheeled horse-drawn cart for transporting very heavy equipment such as cannon barrels). The following year, a full-size version of the fardier à vapeur was built, specified to be able to carry 4 tons and cover 2 lieues (7.8 km or 4.8 miles) in one hour, a performance it never achieved in practice. The vehicle, which weighed about 2.5 tonnes tare, had two wheels at the rear and one in the front where the horses would normally have been; this front wheel supported the steam boiler and driving mechanism. The power unit was articulated to the "trailer" and steered from there by means of a double handle arrangement. One source states that it seated four passengers and moved at a speed of 2.25 miles per hour." -from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot Dec 01 12, 1:00 PM