Le grand album des automitrailleuses de la Victoire
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The idea of ??placing a machine gun on a car chassis is as old as the automobile itself. At the very beginning, around 1900, the words used to designate this assembly were diverse: some spoke of "automotive machine gun", others used the expression "war automobile". Often these were simple torpedoes equipped with machine gun mounts like the famous Panhard-Genty sent to Morocco at the end of 1907. Others were already authentic armoured cars like the CGV presented to the French army in 1906.
It was the Great War, which began in August 1914, which would give its definitive name to this new combat vehicle, with the word "automitrailleuse" and its derived form "autocanon".
Indeed, as early as October 1914, various touring chassis proved capable of withstanding the fire of small 37 mm cannons supplied by the navy, including crews. Thus a new and very unusual subdivision of arms was born in France, with sailors with red pompoms crisscrossing the roads of the front.
More logically transferred to the cavalry in 1916, this new equipment, mainly on Peugeot and Renault chassis, would await its moment of glory with each attempt to break through the front.
In this highly illustrated work, no model designed up to 1918, series or prototype, is forgotten, each is treated by giving first place to the illustration, following a sequence structured by the author's customary rigor of analysis and synthesis.
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| Author: | François Vauvillier |
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| Details: | 160 pages, 31 x 23 cm / 12.2 x 9.1 in, hardback |
| Illustrations: | 330 b&w and 70 colour photos, drawings |
| Publisher: | Histoire & Collections (F, 2023) |
| ISBN: | 9791038013148 |
Le grand album des automitrailleuses de la Victoire
Language: French
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