Renault MR

The Renault MR was a Renault truck with a payload of 7.5 tonnes, made from 1925 to 1929 under the code MR1. Presented at the military competition for tank-transporter trucks in 1926, the MR1 was ordered by the French Army in 27 examples, delivered from 1927 to 1929. It has an inline four-cylinder engine of 100 by 160 mm, twin wheels with tyres at the rear and single wheels at the front, a gearbox with four forward speeds and one reverse, a wheelbase of 4.35 m and a payload of 7.5 tonnes. As a tank transporter the MR1 uses 84 litres per 100 km with an 80 litre tank, and its planned average speed in this use is 19 km/h.