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Legend

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Sorry. The Land Torpedo doodad is a different thing from the two armoured vehicles, although designed by the same team. Beg pardon.

Btw, the drawings here http://www.batailles-blindes.com/chars_anglais.htm are fantastic, especially the Lincoln No. 1 and Crompton's E.D. machines. Anyone know if they are educated guesses or based on existing drawings?

-- Edited by James H at 18:06, 2008-01-06

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There's a profile drawing of the Turmel-Frot-Laffly (by Hubert Cance, incidentally) here:
http://www.chars-francais.net/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=786&Itemid=36

Two Aubriot-Gabet designs are also illustrated by Cance here:
http://www.chars-francais.net/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=787&Itemid=36

There's a photo of the wheeled Aubriot-Gabet thing in Jeudy's 'Chars de France'.

Hubert Cance's drawings appear in the magazine 'Batailles & Blindes'. I've seen his series on early British projects such as Crompton's machines and Sueter's Pedrail published in 'Batailles & Blindes' in 2006 (http://www.batailles-blindes.com/chars_anglais.htm), and they look remarkably similar to Dick Harley's drawings of the same subjects in 'Tankette' published in the early 1980s.

Incidentally, that French website I linked to is superb - there's a photo of a completed Char Lourd FCM 1A here that I've not seen anywhere else (together with a wooden mockup that appears in Jeudy's book):
http://www.chars-francais.net/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=37

-- Edited by Roger Todd at 15:59, 2008-01-06

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Great, thanks for the information. Hooray

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The Aubriot Gabet was a new one on me, but it turns out to be a remote-controlled "land torpedo" like the American Wickham and the German Goliath of WWII.

http://modelarchives.free.fr/Bestiaire/Torpter_P/index.html

The Frott Turmel Laffly was an early experiment with an armoured body on rollers. See below:


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What are Aubriot-Gabet and Turmel-Frot-Laffly Tanks?

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Is that the man who did the illustrations for "Batailles & Blindes"? - If so, the accuracy should be counter-checked; I remember the A7V-drawings, which all were wrong some way or the other...

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Hello,

I just received some drawings from Hubert Cance, amongst them, the armoured car White 1918, the Minerva ......
They are very interesting.
His site : http://www.hubertcance.com/home

All the very best

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