Its codename was 'water-carriers for Mesopotamia' which was shortened to 'tank'. During the early days of World War One it was William Tritton, managing director of Wm Foster & Co. in Lincoln, ...

The tank changed the face of war forever, but its origins lie in two months of feverish invention in 1915, in a small hotel. ... as part of World War One At Home. More on this story.

While tanks with multiple cannons aren’t unprecedented, this design concept mostly vanished post-World War II.Too often, the additional guns had limited fields of fire, the crews of the tanks ...

The tank changed the face of war forever, but its origins lie in two months of feverish invention in 1915, in a small hotel.