The completed vehicle was running by the end of 1915 but by then a new design was under construction and this would become the prototype for all British heavy tanks in the First World War.
Designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare, tanks made their first faltering appearance at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 15 September 1916. How did the guns operate? How was the fuel stored?
The motoring enthusiast wants to build a working replica of a First World War tank, pass the tank driving test, and drive the machine at a Remembrance Day parade in ...
who served in the crew of a Mark IV tank at the Battle of Cambrai during the First World War, has been donated to The Tank Museum, in Bovington. At 6:20am on Tuesday November 20, 1917, the world ...
During World War One, 476 British Mark IV tanks broke through German enemy lines near the French town, during a major offensive which began on 20 November, 1917. It was the first time they were ...
American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks ... already the world's largest ...