The Tank Corps

A concise history of the emergence and use of early armoured fighting vehicles in the First World War, detailing their technical evolution, design debates, and the advocacy of pioneering figures. It covers the creation of training establishments, the scaling of factory production, and the ways front-line units and industrial workers cooperated. The narrative addresses tactical employment, logistical problems of transport, maintenance and salvage, and the tension between planned mass use and ad hoc deployments, stressing the persistence, ingenuity, and organisational adaptations that integrated the new weapon into combined operations.