The French government decided that it could not procure a new tank until 1965, Jerchel, p. 7 while the Germans refused to adopt the Franco-German 105 mm tank gun, in lieu of the British Royal Ordnance L7, of which they had already ordered 1,500 in the autumn of 1962, Spielberger, p. 117 their plan having failed for Rheinmetall to produce in Germany a common type of munition of sufficient quality.