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
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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...
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.
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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.
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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