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MK1 wooden model shown to war office - September 1915
MK1 final shape shown - December 1915
Complete MK1 trials at Hatfield park - January 1916
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The full-size wooden model of Wilson's design for an all-round track machine, which Swinton had seen in Lincoln, was brought up to London in September 1915 and shown to War Office representatives at Wembley Park. To what extent it looked like the tank, as ultimately built, we do not know, since no photograph survives. One witness described the weapon sponsons, fitted to the sides, as looking like bow windows, but since the matter of the weapons to be carried had not then been settled this does not signify very much. The final appearance was revealed when the prototype was inspected at Fosters in December, but it could not be described as complete until it arrived at Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire in January 1916, for its official trials. Outwardly it was a dramatic departure from the profile of Little Willie, although in fact the two machines had a lot in common. Indeed, the massive, lozenge-shaped track frames that created the new tank's distinctive silhouette were just enlarged versions of the type fitted to the first machine. Even the body itself was more or less the same shape, except for the raised cab at the front; only now it was sandwiched between the frames, rather than riding on top of them. These frames were extended fore and aft to give an improved trench-crossing capability to meet new War Office requirements and where they protruded, ahead and behind the body, these extensions were referred to as horns.