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    Arrow 1915 September 06 - First tank produced

    1915 - September 06
    First tank produced


    On September 6, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour. However, improvements were made to the original prototype and tanks eventually transformed military battlefields.


    The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I. In 1914, a British army colonel named Ernest Swinton and William Hankey, secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defence, championed the idea of an armored vehicle with conveyor-belt-like tracks over its wheels that could break through enemy lines and traverse difficult territory. The men appealed to British navy minister Winston Churchill, who believed in the concept of a “land boat” and organized a Landships Committee to begin developing a prototype. To keep the project secret from enemies, production workers were reportedly told the vehicles they were building would be used to carry water on the battlefield (alternate theories suggest the shells of the new vehicles resembled water tanks). Either way, the new vehicles were shipped in crates labeled “tank” and the name stuck.

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    Tanks for the info.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Tanks for the info.
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    I had a 1957 Ford that was quite a tank! Gifted to me at age 16 by my parents!
    F.O.R.D. Fix or repair daily! Had to junk it on orders from a judge!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Are you hurting yourself again Nixon? Yahahhaha

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    I follow the Military channel on TV, and am a big history fan of WWII.
    Guess that makes me a war mongering progressive like Teddy Roosevelt! Hahaha

    Big tank battles...wasn't the Six day Yom kipper war the biggest tank battle ever?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    I had a 1957 Ford that was quite a tank! Gifted to me at age 16 by my parents!
    F.O.R.D. Fix or repair daily! Had to junk it on orders from a judge!
    Or Found On Road Dead

    My first Ford was a 1961 Ford Falcon. I had it when I went on active duty with the Navy. My father sold it while I was gone and kept the money.

    My last Ford was a 2006 Ford Freestyle. I liked the car (it had three rows of seats) but at about 160,000 miles started costing more in upkeep than a new car. I bought a 2012 Hyundai Santa Fee and have been buying Hyundai's ever since.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Or Found On Road Dead

    My first Ford was a 1961 Ford Falcon. I had it when I went on active duty with the Navy. My father sold it while I was gone and kept the money.

    My last Ford was a 2006 Ford Freestyle. I liked the car (it had three rows of seats) but at about 160,000 miles started costing more in upkeep than a new car. I bought a 2012 Hyundai Santa Fee and have been buying Hyundai's ever since.
    Oops. Didn't mean to go off topic like that.

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