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The French Sabat/Sabath/Sabathe One Man Tank.
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I posted this question before, but embedded it in another thread of mine, and as such I didnt get any replies on this particular question.



"By the mid 1920's, France paid little attention to the development
of light tankettes. However, the obvious success of the English
attracted their attention and compelled French engineers to start
their own work on tankettes. In 1929, they developed the
single-seated tankette called the "Sabat." This vehicle was
intended to be transported by a truck, and in battle it ran on
its tracks. The tankette was operated by a driver who was in the
prone position. During a non-combat situation, the driver could
operate the tankette in a sitting posture."

Technical information on this vehicle, as well as that picture, can be found here:
http://www.czolgiem.com/francja/extan.htm

I was wondering if anyone could shed more light on this for me. For one, is that an image of an actual built vehicle? Or is that a drawing? That website is very confusing that way. For instance, that image looks like a drawing, but so does this one from the same site:
http://www.czolgiem.com/wbrytania/foto/tcl_m3.jpg
And in fact, that picture of a Carden Loyd Mk.I*, is a heavily touched up version of this image (courtesy of Centurion):
http://s1.simpload.com/0915450b3062d6f45.jpg

That it looks like a pencil drawing doesnt neccesarily mean it isn't a picture of a real life vehicle, apparently the image doctoring done on images at that site is very extensive. Also, one could be led to think it is not a picture of a real life vehicle because it is a dead on side-view of it. This doesn't prove anything, as I have seen many pictures of dead on side views of tanks that, if doctored as much as these pictures have been, could easily look like drawings.

Any information, additional pictures, or anything of the sort one could tell me about this vehicle would be greatly appreciated! Of all the One Man Tanks I have been researching, I know the least about this one. I don't even know what its real correct name was!

---Vil.

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