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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => 20th Century => Topic started by: GrumpyOldMan on 20 April 2011, 10:25:48 PM

Title: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 20 April 2011, 10:25:48 PM
Hi

Does anybody have a picture or can write a thumbnail description of this truck, is it the Renault Autoblindee 1 eme 1914 APC. Here is a picture of a 20mm version of this truck:-

(http://www.secondcity.org.uk/USERIMAGES/RENAULTAUTOBLINDEE1.JPG)

Thanks for any info.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: Leon on 21 April 2011, 04:56:02 PM
It's a Schneider truck:

(http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/spain/schneiner1909b.jpg)
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 22 April 2011, 12:15:32 AM
Hi

Thanks Leon for the clarification. It's not what I thought but then again it does look attractively ugly  ;D ;D ;D.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: hamsterking on 25 April 2011, 12:57:50 PM
If you go to the France : Other Vehicles section of the Tanks website http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ you will find a number of pictures of different French vehicles that look broadly similar to this. The only thing is that most, if not all, are Armoured cars mounting machine guns rather the Armoured Trucks/APCs .
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: streetgang on 12 July 2017, 05:05:39 PM
I picked up this rather ungainly looking vehicle (nice sculpt however), I did some research on it. Apparently they were used by the Spanish in the Rif War. I'm not sure if the French actually used any variants themselves...

I was hoping to find an acceptable early war armored car that looked similar to the French Peugeot model 1914.
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: Panzer-Kalle on 12 July 2017, 05:39:14 PM
Found this Picture:

(https://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/17/94/68/67/cimg1613.jpg)
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: Leman on 12 July 2017, 05:42:20 PM
Love the idea of an armoured car on bicycle wheels!  :)
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: Panzer-Kalle on 12 July 2017, 05:47:00 PM
 ;D

heavy armoured?

Like a 1923 german  Reichswehr faketank!
Title: Re: F5 - WW1 French Armoured Truck?
Post by: streetgang on 13 July 2017, 06:16:13 PM
I'm guessing the white armored car would be the closest proxy to the Peugeot? It would take some heavy conversions to make it look similar, but could be done.