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The Mark IV tank Lodestar III at the Belgian Royal Museum of the Army, Brussels (2005). This tank retains its original paint. When first deployed, British tanks were painted with a four-colour camouflage scheme devised by the artist Solomon Joseph Solomon. It was found that they quickly got covered with mud, rendering elaborate camouflage paint ...
Little Willie was a prototype in the development of the British Mark I tank.Constructed in the autumn of 1915 at the behest of the Landship Committee, it was the first completed tank prototype in history.
A British Mark V* tank – carries an unditching beam on the roof that could be attached to the tracks and used to free itself from muddy trenches and shell craters. The continued need for four men to drive the tank was solved with the Mark V which used Wilson's epicyclic gearing in 1918.
British Mark I male tank This is a list of combat vehicles of World War I , including conceptual, experimental, prototype, training and production vehicles. The vehicles in this list were either used in combat, produced or designed during the First World War.
The Mark IV (pronounced Mark four) was a British tank of the First World War.Introduced in 1917, it benefited from significant developments of the Mark I tank (the intervening designs being small batches used for training).
The prototype Gun Carrier Mark I (War Department serial number GC 100) was 30 ft (9.1 m) long, and included a Tank Mark I steering tail; with the tail and carrying a gun, the equipment was 43 ft (13 m) long. The vehicle was 11 ft (3.4 m) wide and 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) high.
The Tank, Cruiser, Mk I (A9) was a British cruiser tank of the interwar period. It was the first cruiser tank: a fast tank designed to bypass the main enemy lines and engage the enemy's lines of communication, as well as enemy tanks. The Cruiser Mk II was a more heavily armoured adaptation of the Mark I, developed at much the same time.
Ellis, Chris; Chamberlain, Peter (1969), No. 3: Tanks Marks I to V, AFV Profile, Profile Publishing Fletcher, David (2004), British Mark I Tank 1916 , New Vanguard 100, Osprey Publishing Fletcher, David (2007), British Mark IV Tank , New Vanguard 133, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84603-082-6