The Spanish Nationalists
Bilbao Modele 1932
Armoured Car
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A boxy armoured car based on a Ford commercial truck chassis, with a cylindrical turret armed with a Spansh-built Hotchkiss machine gun. Used by both sides during the Spanish Civil War, the majority remained in Republican hands in 1936, and these were used extensively in the first few months of the war.
Bilbao Modele 1932 'Lanzallamas'
Flamethrower Armoured Car
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Five Bilbaos were sent to a workshop in the town of Quismondo to mount some of the five heavy trench flamethrowers supplied by the Condor Legion. These looked no different from a regular Bilbao, save for a large flame projector poking through the co-driver’s vision hatch, and an internal storage tank.
Fordson Series N Tractor
Artillery Tractor w. Steel Wheels
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Spain saw its first tractor in 1908 but due to the severe post war depression that Spain suffered was slow to expand its fleet. By the thirties Spain still only had a fleet of around 4,000 units. Owing to the low motorisation of the country a lot of these tractors were suborned into military uses in the civil war.
Renault FT-17
Light Tank w. Octagonal Turret & MG
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Following the disaster at Annual in 1921 the French government finally relented and sold an MG armed FT-17 to Spain. reputedly the only octagonal turret armed FT to serve in spain, this is in fact incorrect with a number being imported from countries such as Poland during the civil war for both sides.
Renault FT-17
Light Tank w. Octagonal Turret & Gun
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A total of 64 Renault FT-17’s of varying turrets and armaments were supplied to the Republic by France and Poland in the Spanish Civil War with all 48 Polish ones arriving in Santander just before the fall of the North. Franco’s armies were able to take and put back into service 24 of these.
Renault FT-17
Light Tank w. Berlier Turret & MG
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Of the orginal strength of 15 FT-17’s under the 2nd Republic all but one were equipped with the rounded Berlier turret and all of the original tanks were machine gun armed with a Spanish Hotchkiss 7mm. These tanks found themselves on both sides throughout the Spanish Civil War
Renault FT-17
Light Tank w. Berlier Turret & Gun
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Renault FT-17’s with gun armed rounded Berlier turrets were all in Spain as a result of being imported from Poland and France. Due to the fall of the north, many of these vehicles found themselves serving in Nationalist ranks by the end of 1937.
Schneider CA-1
Light Tank
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Deemed military failures by the French who ditched them as soon as viable, 6 of the remaining stocks were the first tanks sold to Spain. 4 were still in depots with 2 being taken by each side at the commencement of hostilities in 1936, most notably used at the Alcazar and the Mondragon Barracks.
Ford v3000
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Ramón Franco Bahamonde, Franco’s brother, stated explicitly at the end of the war that without American oil and American trucks they could never have won. The Ford V3000 was one of a number of over 12,000 trucks that were supplied to Franco by American fascist supporting manufacturers.
Ford v3000
Canvas Tonnau
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A civilian model that was able to be provided to Franco’s forces en masse as it circumvented the restrictions on the arms trade, the V3000 flooded the Iberian peninsular. Mainly roadbound with limited cross country abilities the V3000 nonetheless filled a critical gap in Nationalist mobility.
Trubia A4
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Serving on both sides of the war the five examples of the Trubia A4 did not see 1937 having already been worn out by the time the war started. Situated in and around Trubia the five examples were instrumental in the siege of Oviedo with perhaps only 1 surviving until the siege was lifted by Molas’ troops.
