Lego good WW1 / WW2 instructions
Back in 1905, Renault was already a pioneer in the automotive industry in strong long growth in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, the company founded by Louis Renault already tested the waters military in 1909, with a protected machine Hotchkiss shield -gun vehicle carrying it aroused little interest from the army, perhaps inspired by the 1908 Charron However, shortly after the start of the war, and Hotchkiss, Schneider, de Dion Bouton, Panhard Levassor Gasnier, Archer and Latil Renault and Peugeot in 1914 introduced its own model, intended for purposes AA It was followed the next year by a completely rebuilt model similar to the Peugeot and the conversion of the former mle 1914 also Renault produced a truck armed with a 47 mm 1 85 to Autocanon Renault for motorized marine infantry.
This first model was accepted and fifty units were built until early 1915, as 4 two AA vehicle with a rear compartment in the open, armed with a single 8 mm 0 31 light machine gun in St Etienne There has been relatively lightly armored, with vertical plates between 4 and 6 mm 0 16-0 24 Those in the attached thick engine compartment with one large armored shutter, while the rear compartment is open, big enough for two loader and gunner operators access to all crew members provided through the open compartment the machine gun was protected by a large front display, with a lift providing vertical mounting manual full 90 cross had supplied ammunition 8mm 24 This model cartridge strips has a ground clearance of 24 cm 9 5-3 35 m in wheelbase 132, with a forward direction 4 2 manual transmission, and a chilled water Renault m otor gasoline axles based on suspension of leaf springs.
Even if a hundred were initially ordered, only 50 were built before their limits have been discovered The AA mount was problematic, and the rate of fire and range are not sufficient for their intended role Also, the armor was too light to protect against shrapnel and machine gun towers, while the open compartment crew left vulnerable But perhaps worst of all, the drive of the front wheel proved ill-suited to operations in 1916, 50 were taken to be reconstructed mle standard 1915, which resembled the armor Peugeot car with a short barrel 37 mm 1 46 in the gun or Hotchkiss LMG behind a shield.
Renault Armored Car mle 1914, Renault 1914.