Général Keller's 1939 French tank program vehicles

[Andriy777]

Rear transmission and drive sprockets were systematically recommended on G1 projects to reduce height of the designs and reduce clutter, heat and noise in the fighting and driving compartments.

It would be very interesting to see the drawings of these tanks.

 

[Mephito19365]

Yes. The old images are for earlier mockups which were discussed by the Army.
Rear transmission and drive sprockets were systematically recommended on G1 projects to reduce height of the designs and reduce clutter, heat and noise in the fighting and driving compartments.

Do you have plans to systematically introduce the G1 series tanks?

 

[Elan Vital]

Do you have plans to systematically introduce the G1 series tanks?

Yes, it is to be preceded by one article in the GBM magazine that I may finish for late 2025. As a courtesy to them I have kept some plans unpublished.
The details/depictions of them are still spotty but quite a good improvement compared to current knowledge. I am waiting for a quotation for scans of some of the plans as some of my pictures were not optimally shot.

Other than 10 reports allegedly dated 1939-1940 from the tank committee which might discuss the G1s, I have pretty much ran out of explicitly named archives about them. Odds are a lot still exists but is scattered in unnamed docs.