Renault TE

The Renault TE was a diesel railcar designed by Renault for the Chemins de fer de l'État and entered service in 1930 with ten units, numbered ZZ 23921 to 23930; four more were delivered to the Chemins de fer économiques de la Gironde. It was built at the request of Raoul Dautry to give secondary lines a modern service, with a wooden body sheathed in aluminium panels and a single driving cab, so it was not reversible. The first examples had petrol engines using 36 litres per 100 km; from 1931 they received Renault 6C 115 diesel engines using 21 litres, the first Renault diesel. Passed to the SNCF in 1937, the railcars left service between 1948 and 1952 or were rebuilt by the Gironde workshops as the MX 201 to 207 series, the last two being declassified as inspection trolleys and withdrawn in 1972.