The name was to be eventually shortened to ‘tank ’ by the troops. The work was carried out in great secrecy and the new war machine was code- named ‘water tank ’ based on the size and shape of the fresh water tanks on theīattle field. Tritton of William Foster and Company of Lincoln to construct a small landship. The committeeĬommissioned Lieutenant W.E.Wilson of the Naval Air Service and William Set up in February 1915, a Landship Committee to look into the possibility ofĭeveloping the new war machine Swinton had proposed. Lord who had a little more imagination than his colleagues. Such a vehicle was rejected by General Sir John French and his scientific advisers.įortunately Swinton ’s report had been read by Winston Churchill, the First Sea To counter the effects of the machine gunner. Petrol tractor on the caterpillar principal, with hardened steel plates, would be able Observed first hand the early battles and reported to his superiors in his opinion, a Headquarters in France began demanding a solution to the trench warfare be found.Īn accomplished writer for the British Army, Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Swinton, Was not how the generals of the time wanted the war conducted and Allied General The death toll had reached such epic proportions that neither the British,įrench or Germans could keep up the insane tactics of mass charges by their troopsĪcross no- mans land only to be slaughtered in vast numbers by machine gun fire,Īrtillery barrages or die entangled in barbed wire or drown in mud. By early 1915, the fighting on the Western Front had stalemated into static trench
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