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James H


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Stumbled across this: Sous l'armure - Les chars d'assaut français pendant la guerre by Pierre Lestringuez, former lieutenant. Haven't had chance to read it all, but it seems to cover the development of the Tanks as well as an account of operations. Will try to find time to read it properly.

 

 

 



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Hi James, nice find shame I cant read much did notice on pg 88 though "The Renault motor of 18 horsepower develops an effective force of 35 horsepower" so I think that basically answers the question we had concerning the title of the manual ...

http://landships.activeboard.com/t42747493/renault-ft-and-engine-misnomers/

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Thursday 18th of April 2013 11:04:22 PM

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Haven't looked at the French text yet (my understanding of French is very limited), but re the thread Ironsides has linked to, I'd like to point out that the bore/stroke values in Charlie's third post (for the Daimler-Knight 6cyl) must be wrong: there's no way a 4.2 litre engine can produce 105hp at 1000rpm on low grade fuel (45 octane, I understand - so low that the machining work on the sleeve valves would have been a complete waste of time and effort, as the higher compression ratios possible with sleeve valves could not be exploited) when the renowned Jaguar XK, when stretched to 4.2 litres, required at least 5000rpm to make 265hp. Five times the rpm, and less than 2.6 times the power, on roughly double the compression ratio?

I think the Daimler used in rhomboids was actually 8-9 litres in capacity, although it may have been larger still; I think I've seen the figure somewhere, but not sure where...

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