- The
Boirault machine (French:
Appareil Boirault), was an
early French experimental landship,
designed in 1914 and
built in
early 1915. It has been considered...
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experimented with
various tank designs, such as the Frot-Laffly landship,
Boirault machine and
Souain experiment.
Another 400 Saint-Chamond
tanks were manufactured...
- trench-crossing capacity. It also
discarded a
proposal by the
engineer Boirault to
build a ****uristic 120 ton
articulated tank. It
retained two options:...
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armoured train Canada Saczeany tank *
France Aubriot Gabet armoured tractor †
Boirault machine I and II † Breton-Prétot
machine (armed tractor) † Frot-Turmel-Laffly...
- and trenches. From 1914 to 1915, an
early experiment was made with the
Boirault machine, with the
objective of
flattening barbed wire
defences and riding...
- A post-war L'Illustration (1919),
showing the
Boirault machine (top) and the Frot-Laffly
landship (bottom)....
- of
Natural History and Science. A war
machine (landship) from WW1
named Boirault machine was
designed in 1915,
later deemed impractical and
hence given...
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considered to
employ Schneider CA hulls. In
January 1917,
engineer Louis Boirault proposed an
articulated tank, a
vehicle that
would be long
enough to cross...
