Bergman 1-100 Lorraine 37L family
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French load carrier (37L) and one of the first APCs (38L VBCP)
Very widely used by the French Army. After the fall of France, Germany siezed all available examples and immediately put the load carriers to use.
The VBCP lost their trailers and were used unaltered as expedient Beobachtungswagen (artillery spotter vehicle), or altered to become Marder I and relatives,
or grosser funk und beobachtungspanzer (a specialised artillery spotter + radio vehicle.)
During the occupation, the French claimed to be building unarmoured agricultural tractor versions. These vehicles were redesigned to use less materials, so had only 2 sets of wheels instead of 3. Although some were used on farms as show-pieces, the factory actually secretly produced armoured bodies as well, and supplied the vehisles to the Resistance. After the war, the deception became the truth when many were unarmoured and used in civilian service. Almost all surviving 37Ls are the short version, because almost all the German-siezed ones ended up in the captured vehicle depots and were scrapped.
The FFI converted a few damaged vehicles to have a fixed casement on the rear with a HMG in a ball mount. Some were used in action.
Marder I family will be a seperate pack.
Vehicles included:
Lorraine 37L load carrier. Always paired with a trailer or two. The fuel trailer was the most common, but there is also a cargo trailer.
Lorraine 38L VBCP. Always paired with a troop trailer. Could carry 10 troops. (Closed versions included.)
Lorraine 37L (short). The secret variant, used as APC and load carrier.
Lorraine 37L FFI-modified machinegun carrier.
Grosser Funk und Beobachtungspanzer. Conversion to a well-equiped radio and artillery spotter vehicle.
All vehicles and trailers printed sitting on their tracks.
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