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This is fascinating information. I have read a great deal about Estienne and the French Tanks of the First World War, but some of these details are new to me.I should like to hear from the author if he can tell me some of his sources for this article. Please contact me if you can.

James Reeve.

Manchester, England.

jamesh@ukf.net

[edit] Style

while informative, this article needs a lot of typos corrected

[edit] Copyright violation

The article is largely cut-and-pasted from here. Could someone do a rewrite, so that good-faith editors' workj on it isn't wasted? Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:53, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The article in question is actually from here in the first place. This article needs work though (probably written from the French originally) and some reading in books has given me extra insight into the process of the development of the St C.GraemeLeggett

Or possibly the Dutch if the entry in nl.wikipedia.org is anything to go by - Lots of info there - but I can't read it. GraemeLeggett

Oh, good grief, how did I miss the reference to Wikipedia at the end? That'll teach me to edit when I'm overtired. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:35, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Movement

I shall move the whole article to St Chamond (tank) as that fits better with the naming schemes. a) the full stop is not English usage, b) St Chamond is also the armaments company that built it. GraemeLeggett 16:22, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've written the Dutch article - and that is indeed the source of the English one - also written by me. :o) The Dutch article reflects the newest French insights, mainly the work of Jeudy. I'm afraid most of the information repeated in English books since the past ninety years is simply wrong or at least distorted. It's in fact an extreme condensation of French newspaper reports of the twenties when there was a big row between several French politicians and soldiers. So, though you have greatly improved my (indeed very poor) English, the factual content has, alas, deteriorated. I'll remove those parts now known to be incorrect.

MWAK--84.27.81.59 14:16, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Looks better now. GraemeLeggett

Thank you! I'll add some more info.

MWAK--84.27.81.59 08:27, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)