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This Schneider has a wire stretched along its length and connected to a piece of metal. Looks suspiciously like an antenna or aerial for a wireless set.

Ce Schneider a un fil tendu sur toute sa longueur et relié à un morceau de métal. Regarde étrangement comme une antenne pour un ensemble telegraphie/telephonie sans fil.

From this film footage:

De ce film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdtxTyoxnUE

at about 7m35s

 



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Mais non!

It's a semaphore device. Pulling the wire lifts the flap to reveal IIRC red & white markings to call for infantry support. Or something close to that. Not radio.

Update: I wasn't far out. I think Michel Tanker explained it a while back, and Steve Zaloga illustrates and describes same on pp 12 & 13 of the Osprey

French Tanks of World War I.



-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 22nd of May 2018 10:11:10 AM

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Oh. Thank you.



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Bonsoir,

It was, there, since 2009 . . .

                   https://forum.pages14-18.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=52547

Bonne lecture - Michel

 



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