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Hotchkiss M201
Welcome to the website. For more detailed information about these wonderful jeep please see the links page. I don’t feel I need to rewrite the history here as so many others have done a far better job than I could do! I would rather extoll the virtues of using and enjoying these jeeps instead!

I regularly take my Hotchkiss Jeeps off road and sensibly put them through their paces. I cannot begin to explain how efficient well balanced and rugged these little jeeps are. I have never been let down by a jeep and actually prefer their use over modern vehicles where the driving experience becomes somewhat masked by very powerful engines and even power steering. Driving the jeep is a very raw experience (I know first hand as I drove one across the N Sahara for a month and it nearly shook me to bits!!)

I like to keep these jeeps ‘alive’ and drive mine as regularly as the conditions will allow.
 FARG - French Army Reenactment Group

In this group we hope to portray what using the jeep and other ‘accessories’ was like for the troops immediately after the second world war. The reenactment group meets occassionally through the winter months, but in the summer we attend many military conventions, portraying the French army during the post war years. This ties in nicely with the production years of the Hotchkiss Jeep and enables us to show French Jeeps to the public in a setting of the cold war or actual conflicts (such as Algeria / Indo China).

Hotchkiss jeep 106mm
If you wish to join us feel free to mail me and we can have a chat to discuss our activities – you don’t need a vehicle or even a uniform – we can usually supply both!

Hopefully see you soon at the next big military show!