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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.
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).
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.
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 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).
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
The Medium Mark A Whippet was a medium tank employed by the British in World War I. Intended for fast mobile assaults, it was intended to complement the slower British heavy tanks by using its relative mobility and speed in exploiting any break in the enemy lines.