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The last Saint-Chamond tank remaining in existence, an improved mid-1918 model, alongside other French tanks of World War I (Schneider CA1 and Renault FT), is preserved at the Musée des Blindés at Saumur. It had survived, together with a Schneider CA1 tank of the same vintage, at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Ordnance Museum in Maryland, US ...
A French Saint-Chamond tank named "Teddy" with a 75 mm field gun at Conde-sur-Aisne, 3 May 1917. More information: on chars-francais.net, on imagesdefense.gouv.fr.
After subsequent modifications and testing, the tank was approved in 1921 for series production under the designation “Chenillette St-Chamond Modele 1921”. Its production was limited to only 12 units since the French Army was not at interested in using the type of vehicle.
A Photo History of Tanks in Two World Wars. Poole: Blandford Press. Foss, Christopher F. (2002). The Encyclopedia of Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles. London: Amber Books. ISBN 978-1905704-44-6. Gale, Tim (2016). The French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War: The Artillerie Spéciale. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317031338.
But that would not last long as the offensive was a major failure; the Schneiders were badly deployed and suffered 50% losses from German long-range artillery. The Saint-Chamond tanks, first deployed on 5 May, proved to be so badly designed that they were unable to cross the first line of German trenches.
The Saint-Chamond (tank) showing the overhanging front hull and the later M.1897 75 mm field gun. During World War I (1914-1918) the company built several different types of weapons, notably the Saint Chamond-Mondragón 75 mm gun which had been designed mostly by colonel Rimailho, the Saint-Chamond tank and the deficient [12] Chauchat machine ...
A French Saint-Chamond tank ("Teddy") with a 75 mm field gun, Condé-sur-Aisne, 3 May 1917 In 2015, Andrew Uffindell wrote that retrospective naming and dating of events can affect the way in which the past is understood.
Schneider company had expected to be able to employ the other major French arms producer, the Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt, as a subcontractor but they had developed a heavier tank design, the Saint-Chamond tank. As a result, the first prototype could only be presented to the Ministry of Armament on 4 August. [33]