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Levavasseur project
The Levavasseur project was an early project for a tank designed in 1903 by the French Captain Léon René Levavasseur (1860-1942) of the 6th Artillery Battalion, described as a "self propelled cannon project" (French: "Projet de canon autopropulseur"). It is considered as the first description, made by a soldier, of what would come to be known as the tank. Levavasseur was a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, of the promotion of 1881. According to "Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the
wire cutter by engineer and Member of Parliament Jules-Louis Breton, the Breton-Prétot machine. Ten of the fifteen available "Baby Holt" vehicles were to be armoured and fitted with the wire cutter of which ten systems had been ordered on 7 August. This involved the "Service Automobile" in the project. On 10 September, new experiments were made for "Commandant" L. Ferrus, an officer who had been involved in the study (and ultimate rejection) of the Levavasseur tank project in 1908.
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