The running gear of the Hotchkiss tank remained largely as the original. Power was from a Hotchkiss 6-cylinder, liquid-cooled unit of 120 horsepower at 2,800rpm. Multiple wheeled bogies dotted the sides of the hull and the track link sections were of a thin profile. Road speeds could reach 35 kmh and range (on roads) was out to 180 kilometers (95km cross-country).
Unlike the Lorraine tractor and FCM 36 tank conversion process, the Hotchkiss H35 presented a much more complicated exercise for the Germans which led to some of the tank's components being reworked or dropped from the design altogether. As such, production was limited to just twenty-four units before the end and these emerged from German-controlled Paris-based workshops during 1942. All of the stock saw combat service in France for their part in the war and they ended their days either destroyed in battle of given up for something better.
Some forty-eight other H35 tanks were converted to become self-propelled gun carriers and were outfitted with in-direct-fire artillery-type guns instead.
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