Panhard 165/175

The Panhard 165/175, also called the Panhard TOE, was a French armoured car of the interwar years, built by Panhard et Levassor for the French cavalry and used mostly in the colonies. It derived from the cavalry armoured-car programme of 1922, for which Panhard fitted an armoured hull designed by the Vincennes workshop to a Panhard chassis. The improved model 165 appeared in 1928, was adopted by the army in 1929 and entered service in 1933, while the 175 had stronger suspension. The crew of four included a second driver facing backwards, and the TOE name stands for overseas theatres of operations. A Panhard SK4F engine of 86 hp drove it, and the turret held a 37 mm gun and a machine gun. A troop-carrying version, the CBP, was made from 1932. It served in Morocco in 1934, in Syria and in the Tunisian campaign of 1943, and a platoon was still in service after the war until 1946.