Mother
(1916-present)

thing and tank

Aged 108

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Commemorated on 1 plaque

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Sir William Tritton. 1875 - 1946. Near this site in 1915 Sir William Tritton, Managing Director of Wm Foster & Co. Agricultural Engineers. Designed, built and tested the first fighting tank, the prototype "Little Willie" and it's successor "Mother" ended the stalemate of trench warfare and led to allied victory in World War 1

Morrisons, Lincoln Shopping Centre, Tritton Rd, Lincoln LN6 7QL, Lincoln, United Kingdom where it was invented