French Armoured Cars I

The French cavalry experimented extensively during the 1920s with armored cars and ultimately half-tracks. These half-tracks sometimes formed combat teams with armored cars, towed artillery, motorcycles, and light tanks carried on trucks until contact was made. In fact, the French half-tracks may well have been the models for later German and American infantry carriers. Having once led the world in half-track production, the French virtually ended development of the half-track in 1933. Half-tracks were most suitable for rapid operational maneuver and motorized units, however, which at the time were not emphasized in French doctrine. Thus, deployment of half-tracks was dropped for lack of interest.

French Vehicles of WWII

French Armored Cars: 1902-1945 By Raymond Surle'mont

Armoured car and half-track AFV deliveries were:

Model	before 1 September 1939	1939	1940	total
AMD White TBC	86	—	—	86
AMD Laffly 50	98	—	—	98
AMD Laffly 80	28	—	—	28
AMD Laffly S15 TOE	45	—	—	45
AMD Berliet VUDB	32	—	—	32
AMD Panhard 165/175	30	—	—	30
AMD Panhard 178	219	69	243	533
AMC Schneider P 16	96	—	—	96
Total	634	69	243	946