The model pf the L6/40 had been finished in 1938, plus the following 12 months the show model wound up being prepared. The hull ended up being copied following preceding L3/33 therefore the amazing unit had been running on an SPA 18D 70 cv motor which offered it a maximum price of 42 Km/hr. It absolutely was armed with a Breda 20mm canon and a big machinegun. Though it could currently be regarded obsolete when it went into production, it had been none the less found in Africa, Russia, the Balkans plus in Italy. Many had been captured by the Germans following the armistice and used right, or compiled by, the Italian individual Republic.