For anyone who has wondered just how small a Renault light tank is...

[Meatwad]

I'm Scottish too but at LEAST where the proper attire above the waist. A blues brothers T-shirt does NO Justice to our heritage! 

Blues brothers is a classic heritage in IL. State law requires that you must watch the first movie at least one time per year. The second movie is rubbish and has been sent to a landfill, which is never to be spoke of again forever

[Ripsnort]

And yet tanks did some great things in WW1 near the point of attack. They used horses to exploit deep.

Of interest, the commander was the gunner and how he directed the driver was by kicking. Right shoulder, turn right, etc.

Boo

You forgot a key part of that system..."Because the French engine and the rattle of the track was TOO FOCKING LOUD" (to hear anything)

[Treize69]

No different from any other engine of the time, Rip. Ever heard a real rotary or Hisso fire up? There's a reason most pilots and aircrews were usually pretty much deaf for a while after landing, and even cars and trucks were loud as hell considering how weak they were.

[pipz]

Where was the tank located?

[Treize69]

That's the one in the collection at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Pipz.

[Rich46yo]

We have a Stuart on display at a park here and its a wonder 3 or 4 fit inside that.

[Reaper90]

I would much rather be in that thing than charge on foot into machine gun fire at the Somme.

This, this, and a lot more of ^^^THIS^^^

When I look at that tank, what I see is "hey, at least I'm not going to die from machine gun fire like the 100,000 of you guys out there..."

[Ripsnort]

No different from any other engine of the time, Rip. Ever heard a real rotary or Hisso fire up? There's a reason most pilots and aircrews were usually pretty much deaf for a while after landing, and even cars and trucks were loud as hell considering how weak they were.

  WHAT?

[guncrasher]

I'm Scottish too but at LEAST where the proper attire above the waist. A blues brothers T-shirt does NO Justice to our heritage! 

well to be honest his legs are pretty enough for him to wear a skirt or whatever...



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[MiloMorai]

I am going to plug a couple of books on WW1. Naturally they are Canadian but should be applicable to other nations.

[PR3D4TOR]

[earl1937]

...this is me standing next to an original M1918 Light Tank (US licensed copy of the Renault) with my 1 year old daughter.

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This is looking at the interior from the open drivers compartment- the radiator is right behind the TC as he crouches in the turret (though that is a modern engine, not the original).

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And this is the drivers position buttoned up, with me in it, to give an idea of the cramped interior- I'm tall enough that I could, just by tilting my head back a bit, look straight up at the top of the turret.

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No thank you.

In my world, that is called a "steel coffin"!

[PR3D4TOR]

In my world, that is called a "steel coffin"!

In your world, at the time, you'd be in a motorized wood and canvas kite with no parachute. And you'd be facing the same German machine guns as that tank.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

My grand father's brother died in a French tank at the beginning of WW2. He was set on fire by a flame thrower and could not escape as the turrets were locked. 

[Rino]

     I thought that tank looked awfully familiar, my aunt lives in Germantown only a few miles north
of Rhinebeck.  Watching the tank and cars drive around during the airshow was almost as much fun
as the birds themselves