Citroën-Kégresse P17

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Citroën-Kégresse P17
Restored Citroën-Kégresse P17

Restored Citroën-Kégresse P17
General properties
crew 5
length 4.38 m
width 2.09 m
height 1.69 m
Dimensions 1580 max., With 700 kg payload
agility
drive 4-cylinder
gasoline engine, depending on the model 1625 to 1770 cm² 30 to 31.5 hp
Top speed 26 to 32 km / h
Power / weight 16 hp / t

The Citroën-Kégresse P17 was a half-track vehicle developed by Adolphe Kégresse , which was introduced by the French army in 1929 as a tractor for the 75 mm field gun .

history

After successful attempts with the "Citroën-Kégresse P7bis" in 1928, the French army decided to introduce a half-track towing vehicle for the previous 75 mm horse-drawn field gun.

The structure was the Citroën C4 truck, which was equipped with the Kégresse chain drive.

Several versions were produced based on the 1929 model. The first model P10 was followed by the models P17 A to P17 E. With each model, more powerful engines were used, which enabled increasingly higher driving speeds. They were assigned to the field artillery regiments until 1935 the successor models Unic P107 were available.

When the Second World War broke out , 1,442 vehicles were in service.

After the arrival of the Unic P107, the P17 were handed over to the mechanized units to pull the anti-tank guns 47 mm modèle 1937 and 25 mm modèle 1938/1939. In practice, during the Battle of France, the anti-tank vehicles proved to be too immobile and too slow.

Part of the production took place in the German Citroën production plant in Cologne-Poll , which opened in 1927 , where, however, only a total of 1,541 commercial vehicles such as buses, flatbed trucks, articulated lorries, cattle trucks and Kégresse half-track vehicles were built (compared to a total of 18,710 passenger cars of the types B14 , C4 , C6 , Citroën Rosalie and Traction Avant until 1935).

More users

  • United States

The United States Army technical service tested the P17 with satisfactory results. The company James Cunningham, Son & Company acquired the license of the Kégresse and in 1932 developed the "Half Track Car T1" from it. There was further work by other designers, but the prototype of the M3 (half-track vehicle) was the only determining factor.

  • Poland

The Polish Army ordered one hundred of the vehicles between 1931 and 1939.

  • Germany

The Wehrmacht used the Citroën-Kégresse P17 captured after the second armistice at Compiègne and still usable under the name of the Ci 301 (f) traction vehicle .

gallery

  • Citroën Kegresse de 1931

    Citroën P17

  • Citroën Kegresse de 1931

    Citroën P17, view of the drive

  • Drive roller

  • Nameplate

Other use

Several Citroën-Kégresse P17 took part in the long-distance Croisière Jaune from April 4, 1931 to February 12, 1932 and in the long-distance “Croisière Blanche” from July 4, 1934 to October 24, 1934 in Alaska .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "to" stands for improved
  2. ^ Citroën automobile production plant in Poll . In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. (accessed April 5, 2020)
  3. ↑ Doublechevron Citroën-Kégresse P 17 [1]
  4. ↑ Honegger 2006, p. 15
  5. ↑ Gourlay 2004; Reynolds 2006; Honegger 2006, p. 15.

literature

  • F. Vauvillier, J.-M. Touraine: L'automobile sous l'uniforme 1939-40. Massin, 1992, ISBN 2-7072-0197-9 .
  • Patrick Gourlay: Regards sur la croisière jaune. Éditeur Skol Vreizh, 2004, ISBN 978-2915623062 .
  • Pascal Honegger: General information about Citroën Kegresse cars. KRYBEBÅNDS-SOCIETETET, November 2006 (PDF) - À télécharger sur Kegresse.Dk
  • Jean-Denis GG Lepage: German Military Vehicles of World War II. An Illustrated Guide to Cars, Trucks, Half-Tracks, Motorcycles, Amphibious Vehicles and Others. McFarland, 2007, p. 129.
  • Jens Møller Nicolaisen: Citroën Kégresse. All the models. Version 1.1, February 12, 2011 (PDF) - À télécharger sur Kegresse.Dk [2]
  • Francois Vauvillier: Les VDP, voitures de dragons portés. Cavalerie Mécanique 19-40, Guerre, blindés et Mécanique (GBM), HS1, December 2013 - January 2014, p. 89.
  • François Vauvillier: Citroën-Kégresse de dragons portés. Blindés & Matériel 107, January 2014, pp. 53–66.
  • Steven J. Zaloga: French Tanks of World War II (1). Infantry and Battle Tanks. Osprey Publishing, 2014, p. 42.

Web links

  • Kegresse.Dk [3]
  • Recensement des véhicules Kégresse: Kegresse.dk. The Kegresse Register (PDF) - [4]
  • Zervan.fr 2nd GM: les semi chenillés français Kégresse - [5]

Video

  • ASPHM (ASSOCIATION DE SAUVEGARDE DU PATRIMOINE HISTORIQUE MILITAIRE), Citroën Kegresse P17- [6]