A few years ago Bernard Dhaussy posted some great photos of the collection at the Musée de la Grande Guerre du pays de Meaux (Museum of the Great War at Meaux, France) on Google+. One of these was the Latil TAR an artillery towing truck.
In 1911, Latil designed, built and patented its first four-wheel drive/steering vehicle. This type of vehicle interested the French Army in 1913 for its ability to tow heavy artillery on every field and the TAR (Tracteur d'Artillerie Roulante/ Rolling Artillery Tractor) was built. The artillery tractors LATIL 4 × 4 TAR, were developed in 1913 and were widely used during the War of 1914-1918 to tow the 155 mm guns on rough terrain. In testing manoeuvres, they could climb slopes up to 40%!
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