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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 ...
Original - Mark I tank from World War I Reason This tank was one of the first to be used ever in combat, during the Battle of the Somme.What makes this picture special is the fact that its design is quite unique, the picture quality is very high for a photograph from 1916, and the subject is enhanced by several British Army soldiers.
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Though it never saw combat, Little Willie was a major step forward in military technology, being the first tank prototype to be finished. [note 1] During the remainder of World War I, some tank crews continued to informally refer to their vehicles as "Willies" or "buses". In 1922 the Royal Tank Regiment adopted a folk song called My Boy Willie ...
The prototype of a new design that became the Mark I tank was demonstrated to the British Army on 2 February 1916. Although initially termed "Landships" by the Landship Committee, production vehicles were named "tanks", to preserve secrecy. The term was chosen when it became known that the factory workers at William Foster referred to the first ...
British Mark I Tank 1916. New Vanguard. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781841766898. Fletcher, David (2001). The British Tanks 1915 - 19. The Crowood Press. ISBN 1861264003. Forty, George; Livesey, Jack (2006). The World Encyclopedia of Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles. London: Anness Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0754833512. Forty, George (1984).
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 Mark I tanks, were operated by the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps and had a range of 23 miles (37 km) without refuelling and a speed of 3 miles per hour. [47] The Mark I tank first saw service on the Somme in September 1916. [48] The Mark I tank was available in two different configurations known as 'male' and 'female'.