Berliet VUB

The Berliet VUB was a prototype armoured car designed between the wars by the French maker Berliet. It was presented to answer the programme for a reconnaissance armoured car, the automitrailleuse de decouverte or AMD, which the French cavalry defined in 1931. It had four driven wheels, with the two front wheels independently sprung and the two rear wheels on an axle with long travel, and two driving positions. The prototype received a turret from the Vincennes workshop, fitted with a 25 mm Hotchkiss gun and a 7.5 mm machine gun. After trials from June to November 1933 the Vincennes commission for motor vehicle equipment found that it handled well, was easy to drive and performed well off road, but that its weight was too high and caused broken parts. The VUB was not selected, and it was the Panhard 178 that became the standard cavalry AMD in 1935.