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    The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Although...
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    The Char 2C, also known as the FCM 2C, was a French post WWI heavy tank landship, later considered a super-heavy tank.[page needed] It was developed during...
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    industrial rivalry began to play a detrimental role: it created the heavy Char Saint-Chamond, a parallel development not ordered by the Army, but approved by government...
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    Aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH), more commonly known as "Saint Chamond" from its location, and the last by Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée...
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    Gabet tank † FCM A * FCM 1A † FCM 1B * Peugeot tank † Renault FT Saint-Chamond Saint-Chamond 25t * Schneider CA1 Schneider CA2 and CA3 † Schneider CA4 * Germany...
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    Renault FT (redirect from Char Renault FT17)
    deployed, together with smaller numbers of the older Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks. As the war had become a war of movement during mid-1918, during...
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    Schneider CA1 (redirect from Char Schneider)
    17 January; the Army would develop the eight-wheeled system into the Saint-Chamond heavy tank. Whereas the first order spoke of tracteurs Estienne, the...
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    vehicles are presented, some still in running condition: Schneider CA1, Saint-Chamond, Renault FT and a Renault truck. French Campaign 1940 All the main armoured...
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    mounted a short 75 mm gun in a sponson on the right hand side, while the Saint-Chamond mounted a standard 75 mm field gun in the nose. The thin armour of the...
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    of the Saint-Chamond were produced. While moderately successful, these early systems were large and extremely heavy; the one in the Saint-Chamond added...
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    initiated the design and order of the two French operational tanks, the Saint-Chamond and Schneider CA1. The immobility of the trench warfare characterizing...
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  • the famous French 75 mm field gun), cooperated to build the ill-fated Saint-Chamond tank. During a chance meeting on 16 July, Renault informed him that...
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    shown in Berlin as a trophy. Char 2C bis: 72 tons; modified Char 2C with 155 mm howitzer and different turret; one Char 2C was converted into this variant...
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  • A7V Mark I Mark II Mark III Mark IV Mark V Mark V* Mark V** Mark VIII Saint-Chamond Schneider CA1 Prototypes, experimentals CLB 75 Tank FCM 1A Fiat 2000...
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    The FCM 1A was French heavy tank that served as a prototype of the Char 2C. The FCM 1A began development in January 1917 when 200 hp engines became available...
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    industrial rivalry began to play a detrimental role: it created the heavy Char St Chamond, a parallel development not ordered by the Army but approved by government...
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    that used the Mle 1914 Hotchkiss include the Schneider CA1, Saint-Chamond, Renault FT and Char 2C. Conversely, British tanks and armored cars were fitted...
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    but weights of 28 to 29 tons, and the French Schneider CA1 and Char d'Assault St. Chamond with lengths of 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) and 28 ft 11 in (8.81 m) and...
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  • 48 km (30 mi) 1917 24/17/5.5 mm 14.6 t 75 km (47 mi) Saint-Chamond France 1917 165 8 75mm Saint-Chamond-Mondragón [106–108], 4× 8 mm MG [7,488] 11.5/17/5...
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    anti-aircraft artillery. They were the main armament of the Saint-Chamond tank in 1918 and the char 2c. The French 75 is widely regarded as the first modern...
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    September 1915, and in 1916 became involved with the development of the Saint-Chamond tank, which bore what Gougaud describes as "disturbing similarities"...
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    tanks were introduced, the larger tanks were classified as heavy. The French Char 2C was one of the largest tanks ever produced. At the start of World War...
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    François Léon Rimailho, in the development of an alternative tank, the Saint-Chamond. In 1917 an Allied inter-parliamentary commission even concluded that...
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  • Tilling-Stevens petrol–electric bus Owen Magnetic touring car 1920 advertisement St. Chamond tank Examples of petrol–electric rail vehicles include the North Eastern...
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    Renault Char léger Modèle 1935 R light Infantry tank (Poland used 50 of those tanks) and also the Hotchkiss Char léger modèle 1935 H (Three Hotchkiss Char léger...
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  • 2000 built. Renault Type ZM. Renault R40 – Improved version of R35. Saint-Chamond heavy tank (400; World War I) Schneider CA1 medium tank (400; World...
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    largely unsatisfactory types of tank, 400 each of the Schneider and Saint-Chamond, both based on the Holt Tractor. The following year, the French pioneered...
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    Frot-Laffly armoured roller, also Frot-Turmel-Laffly armoured roller (French: Char Frot-Turmel-Laffly, also Rouleau cuirassé Paul Frot), was an early French...
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    Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0-275-95019-0 François Vauvillier, 2008, "L'Aube du char en France — L'idée de l'engin du no man's land avant Estienne", Tank Zone...
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    25 February 1916. Soon after, on 8 April 1916, another order for 400 Saint-Chamond tanks was also placed. Schneider had trouble with meeting production...
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