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Lorraine 37L
The Lorraine 37L or ''Tracteur de ravitaillement pour chars 1937 L'', ("Tank Supply Tractor 1937 L") was a light tracked armoured vehicle developed by the Lorraine company during the Interwar period or Interbellum, before the Second World War, to an April 1936 French Army requirement for a fully armoured munition and fuel supply carrier to be used by tank units for front line resupply. A prototype was built in 1937 and production started in 1939. In this period also two armoured personnel carriers and a tank destroyer project were based on its chassis. Mainly equipping the larger mechanised units of the French Infantry arm, the type was extensively employed during the Battle of France in 1940. After the defeat of France, clandestine manufacture was continued in Vichy France culminating in a small AFV production after the liberation and bringing the total production to about 630 in 1945. Germany used captured vehicles in their original rôle of carrier and later, finding the suspension system to be particularly reliable, rebuilt many into tank destroyers (''Panzerjaeger'') of the Marder I type or into self-propelled artillery.
==Development==
In 1934 the order was given to design a munition supply vehicle to increase the operational range of independent tank units. The same year the Renault 36R was selected for further development; three hundred were ordered from 1938. However this tractor was only partially armoured; on 17 April 1936 a new set of specifications was drafted for a fully armoured vehicle to deliver fuel and munitions to tanks fighting on the frontline.〔François Vauvillier, 2012, ''Tous les Blindés de l'Armee française 1914-1940'', Histoire de Guerre, Blindés & Matériel, p. 103〕
Early in 1937 the ''Lorraine'' company finished a prototype. It was a lengthened version of a proposed replacement type for the 1931 model Renault UE Chenillette tracked infantry supply tractor. In February 1937, the matériel commission, the ''Commission de Vincennes'', was ordered to test the prototype and to complete an evaluation before 1 November 1937, even if testing would not yet have been finished. The prototype was only presented on 9 July and tested until 4 August. It was equipped with a 2371 cc Delahaye four cylinder 124 F engine.〔 Although the vehicle attained a maximum speed of , this dropped to an unacceptably low when an intended fuel trailer was attached. It was therefore returned to the factory; after a more powerful Delahaye 135 engine and stronger clutch had been fitted it was again tested between 22 September and 29 October and now achieved the desired .〔
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