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Tanker


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Bonjour,

In G.B.M. (Guerre, Blindés et Matériels) n° 98 - Octobre-Décembre 2011, a very good topic, by Guy François, about the French heavy tank FCM 1A, with some very good photos and plans of this tank.

Bonne lecture - Michel



-- Edited by Tanker on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 09:28:42 AM

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Roger Todd


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That sounds brilliant but their own website says it's already sold out!

WTF?!??!?!

Do you know anywhere else an English buyer can get it? I've tried the web but to no avail! This is incredibly annoying and extremely pisspoor of the publisher, to be brutally frank...



-- Edited by Roger Todd on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 10:25:00 AM

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Ooh, that's a cracking photo. It looks like a Tiger. Ironsides will be beside himself.

Doesn't make sense that it's sold out. I'm going to order a copy anyway and see what happens.



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Hello

Well it does suck that they are sold out, that makes no since !#$%%^%^ But I am still excited, I have had a fascination with this tank forever, and I really look forward to the photo's and drawings....

All The Best

Tim R.



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Well, earlier I managed to order a copy from this French site:

www.journaux.fr

Here's the direct link:

http://www.journaux.fr/gbm-histoire-de-guerre-blindes-materiel_histoire_art-et-culture_85031.html

Although everything is in French, it's easy to navigate around, and best of all they accept PayPal payments, which makes ordering a damn site easier (if you have a PayPal account that is!).

I'm still deeply unimpressed with the publisher for selling out an issue that has only just been published!



-- Edited by Roger Todd on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 04:34:23 PM

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Email from François Vauvillier taken in this revue  :  f.vauvillier@histocollcom

            (It's the Director and the Editor-in-Chief)



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Thanks, I may drop him a line - also MANY THANKS, Tanker, for alerting us to this issue in the first place! thumbsup.gif



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Hello,

I confirm that GBM N°98 is just published and available on the publisher with never published photographs of the FCM 1A!
You can see that english and american officers are visible on the first photograph of the presentation of the Tank "FCM 1A" in december 1917 at La Seyne-sur-Mer near Toulon.Perhaps, one reader of the paper know the names of these officers?
I look after the report of these officers and their appreciation of this french Tank, very advanced for his time!
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.



-- Edited by ALVF on Thursday 13th of October 2011 04:03:07 PM

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I wonder if this contains any new info on the mysterious General Mourret, whose career seems to have gone downhill remarkably quickly ater the Saint-Chamond. I think I read somewhere that his handling of the 1A more or less finished him off.



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Well, my copy has already arrived (from the journaux.fr website - see earlier post), a mere four days after ordering!

As my French is really rusty (O-level grade C, class of 1985!) it will be a bit of a slog to read through, but the article looks incredible!

There's a lot of text, there are two colour profile drawings (in scale with colour profiles of contemporaries St Chamond; Schneider; Renault FT; and British Mk I), no modern scale plans but there are reproductions of several original design drawings, consisting of a profile, longitudinal cross-section and plan view of the FCM 1A itself; and profiles of three other tank studies derived from the 1A project: FCM A; FCM 1B; and an early version of the FCM 2C.

There are six good quality photos of the FCM 1A itself (including the two on this page, but much better quality - the magazine is printed on good, shiny paper). For the modelmakers among us, there is certainly enough visual information and dimensions given on the various design drawings for anyone to draft a set of scale drawings.

James H will be pleased to learn that General Mourret does feature in the text (and there is a small photo of him), but as I have not yet had the time (or inclination) to exercise my arthritic French abilities, I have no idea whether there is any new information on the good General.

All in all, my initial impressions are that this is a splendid article, shedding much light on a surprisingly obscure (at least in Anglophone countries) part of French tank development.

If you are in any way interested in this period, or nationality, of tank development I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you are only interested in building a model of this vehicle, again I cannot recommend the article highly enough. Go forth and buy this magazine!

And again, many thanks are due to Tanker for bringing it to the attention of the members of the forum in the first place!



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Hello Gentlemen,

First I wish to thank Michel (Tanker) and Guy (ALVF), both from the 'French dream team', for their priceless contributions.

As the Publisher/Editor and 50 % Author of the French quarterly GBM, I am extremely happy to notice the interest raised in our magazine through this outstanding article on the Char FCM 1A.

May I draw your attention on the fact that, in each issue of GBM (from #74 to the current #98), we feature at least three articles on WWI French heavy equipment. The main regular contributions are from Guy François (ALVF) on artillery and from votre serviteur on any type of motor vehicles, staff cars, trucks, lorries, armoured cars and some recent topics on the lesser-known Renault FT tanks (75 S and 'char signal' TSF), with never-published before informations.

In the same issue #98, you'll get, on top of the (who said fabulous ?) FCM 1A topic, no less than three other articles about WWI : the standard Model 1901 bridging equipment, the unknown 105 Schneider 1912 howitzer (which saw service in the Belgian army) and another outstanding feature, by the French specialist Thierry Baudin : all we have dreamt to know about French military vehicles registration numbers is completely and clearly explained, for the first time ever.

Last, the official e-address of our magazine is : http://blindes-materiel.histoireetcollections.com/

There you'll get the detailed contents of every GBM issue, and all of them are readily available. Sorry, my company is not responsible for the wrong informations given by such and such website that are merely on-line newsagents.

At Histoire & Collections, we'll of course welcome any visit on our website, and immediately fulfill any order.


Kind regards to everyone here.

François

Histoire & Collections, Paris

 

PS : Yes, general Mourret is shown in the article. I have been lucky enough to find one (not very good hélas) photograph to add to Guy's article.



-- Edited by françois vauvillier on Monday 17th of October 2011 10:20:58 PM



-- Edited by françois vauvillier on Monday 17th of October 2011 10:23:48 PM

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Roger Todd wrote:

....

As my French is really rusty (O-level grade C, class of 1985!) it will be a bit of a slog to read through, but the article looks incredible!

....

 

May I point out that there is a tech solution for foreign (non-English) language articles. 

That is:

Hi-res scan -> OCR -> Machine translation

The tools have improved a lot in recent years and can produce quite readable English text.  OCR (Optical character reading) is the critical step especially for languages which use different alphabets - I use ABBY Fine Reader which seems to be one of the best around.

Regards,

Charlie



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Ta! However, I do have a scanner and OCR software, and I used to use it successfully, but for some reason I cannot get the scanner to work any more (and there's nothing wrong with the scanner, it works on a friend's PC, it's the software; I've tried reinstalling the scanner software several times but to no avail, it keeps claiming the TWAIN driver is missing; and I've installed and reinstalled TWAIN drivers until they're coming out of my ears!). To cut a long story short, I've given up trying to get the bloody thing working again.

My advice: never buy a Canon scanner!



-- Edited by Roger Todd on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 12:32:21 AM

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Sympathy - they do go rancid from time to time. You haven't "upgraded" your PC lately? If your current PC is Windows 7 then don't give up - they will surely release an appropriate driver sometime (maybe have already). But that's too easy, I guess that's not the answer.

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No, still on Win XP. I've tried everything (except, of course, whatever it is that works!) and I have now given up - grrrrrrrrrr!!! furious



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