Fantastic. A remarkably modern-looking vehicle. There's an article on it in Guerre, Blindés, Matériel, including a photo with about 75 of them in a vehicle park.
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There were two flavours of CD one with a simple deck and another with a shorter deck, a capstan built into the drive axle usually with a cable reel on the forward part of the deck.
The attached is the former variety of CD being loaded onto a trailer. On the deck is an assembly with 4 tires - for bragging rights - what is it?
Fantastic. A remarkably modern-looking vehicle. There's an article on it in Guerre, Blindés, Matériel, including a photo with about 75 of them in a vehicle park.
And in No. 87 there's 8 pages on the Renault Porteur.
See if they've got any back numbers at Histoire and Collections.
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Unfortunately they are sold out of #86. They have #85 (the index says there should be something on the CD there, too), and #87. I am considering ordering them. I checked on E-bay, too - no luck. Any other ideas?
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There were two flavours of CD one with a simple deck and another with a shorter deck, a capstan built into the drive axle usually with a cable reel on the forward part of the deck.
The attached is the former variety of CD being loaded onto a trailer. On the deck is an assembly with 4 tires - for bragging rights - what is it?
Charlie
It looks like the auxiliary front axle assembly for the La Buire transporter... I'm sure there's a correct technical name for it but I've no idea what it would be???
Did I guess right?
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Has anyone else noticed "new and improved" seems to mean it doesn't work as well as it used to?
Our two primary functions are to tow guns and carry supplies.
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I'd better close this off before it turns into a grammar war....
Since the vehicle is an artillery tractor one might expect the load on the Schneider CD in the image to be related to artillery.
The Schneider CD was used to tow the Canon de 145 Mle 1916 Ruelle St-Chamond and Canon de 155 Mle 1917 GPF.
The 145mm Ruelle St-Chamond had a box trail and was transported either as a single load with the barrel drawn back over the trail or as
two loads with the barrel carried on a separate trailer. The 155mm GPF had split trails and was was transported by removing the spades, joining
the trails and lifting the trails onto a sprung transport frame which had a pair of wheels and a seat for the brakeman. On the back of the Schneider CD
in the image is a transport frame for a 155mm GPF.
Regards,
Charlie
-- Edited by CharlieC on Tuesday 30th of May 2017 02:13:38 AM
