WWI Tanks: Saint-Chamond

One rival company based at Saint Chamond started to develop its own tank design under technical director Colonel Émile Rimailho. By early 1916 the first prototype was built at Saint Chamond factory. Development was slow and it took until May 1917, for the first service examples to be ready, making it the second tank to be built by the French. Please consider supporting our videos on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/simplehistory... Get your copy of Simple History: World War I today! https://www.amazon.com/Simple-History... Simple history gives you the facts, simple! See the book collection here: Amazon USA http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Turner/e... Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Turner... http://www.simplehistory.co.uk/   / simple-history-549437675141192     / simple_guides   Credit: Narrator: Chris Kane https://ckvox.com/ Animation: Daniel Turner Artwork: Daniel turner Music Credit Ross Bugden- 'Rapture' ‘Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License’.