The study of the armed wagon was initiated, under the push of the Primo Lord of the admiralty (Minister of the Marina Militare) sir Winston Churchill, from the Royal Navy, under the name of coverage of "Project Tank" ("Reservoir") and still today in the countries of Anglo-Saxon or Slavic language the armed wagon is known note as tank.
The preceding experiences with the autoblindos had shown that the wheels were not proper for the movement on the ground upset by the fire of artillery, therefore been immediately decided to equip the new mean with tracks, and indeed the first prototypes seemed some big reservoirs wound by tracks. Well soon the British army began the collaboration to the project with the Marina.
Already in 1915 he arrived to a first project of motto: winding tracks, motor Daimler from 105 hp, speed in plain of 6,5 km / h, armament on two machine guns or a machine gun and a gun from 2 pounds (40 mm). It stayed opened the problem of the choice of the tracks and the suspensions.
The final project produced a vehicle to form of rhombus with winding tracks and two short beards to the sides of which they went out or two machine guns or a machine gun and a gun from 6 pounds (57 mm), the corazzatura had a thickness of 10 mm. This mean had called Big Mother ("Big Mother") and stirred for the first time on its tracks on January 16 1916. They were orderly 100 vehicles on the base of this project (Tank Mk The) and to August (always 1916) it was delivered the first vehicle to the crew.
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