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     In 1899 the tank was introduced, it was made by Fredrick Simms.  The tank

is just a catapilar tractor with heavy armor and large guns.  The tank was

introduced in the war as a new military weapon, but it was brought into the war to

soon and without enough training to be a effective weapon.

     A catilpiler tractor is a tractor with tracks instead of wheels.  The good this

does is that the track are like one big wheel and wont get as stuck a easy and can

cross trenches and holes. Another difference is that a tank has full armor all around
it

which is bullet proof, the tank can be equipped with machine guns or large caliber

cannons.

     The First armor car was called a “moter-war-car”, it had 2 maxim guns on

revolving turrets.  But was rejected by british war officer Frederick Simms’.
Fifteen

years later Chirchill decided to test out the “motar-war-car”, it was tested on

bridging the cuts and ruts the Germans put in the road.

     The first tank design was called “Little Willie.”  Little Willie was designed by

Lieutenant W.G. Wilson and William Tritton.  The tank was consisted of an

armored box encircled by caterpillar tracks, with guns mounted on spindles on

each side.  Little Willie was the first vehicle to designed and completed as a tank,

but evan throw it was a tank it was not very effective because it was to short to
cross German trenches that were more than 4 feet wide.

     In 1916 W.G. Wilson retired the “Little Willie” and a new tank was
developed

called “Mother”.  The “Mother” was able to climb a parapet that was able to climb a

parapet that was more that was 4ft 6in high.  Also “Mother” was able to beet the

barbed wire entanglements.

     An improved version of the “Mother” was developed in 1916. The Mark I

with its armor plate varying from a 12mm canon to a 6mm.  It had four Vicker

water-cooled machine gun.  Also equipped with one Hotchkiss machine gun.  The

British Army ordered 150 but of these tanks the first 49 were into action...

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