Courtesy Holt Manufacturing Co. laugh at 'em." It was said that these monstrous engines were made out of ordinary farm tractors manufactured in Peoria, Illinois, thousands of which are now in use on American farms. Great Britain bought a thousand of them, and at first she used them only for hauling heavy guns and supplies. Later she sheathed them in armor and mounted guns inside their shell and sent them to demoralize the Germans. The upper picture shows a 'somewhat smaller model of the tractor walking over a railroad track. The "tank" is probably built from a 25,000-pound model with 120-horse power and measuring nine by twenty-three feet. The lower picture shows the wheels. The caterpillar belt which encircles the wheels has been laid flat. On it can be seen the jointed track on whose segments, laid down one by one by the advancing caterpillar treads, four or five small wheels run Again the tank! This photograph of its invincible charge across No Man's Land was taken for the British war records N. Y. H., Courtesy of London Sphere An artist in the trenches sketched this impression of the forward march of a tank across the enemy's intrenchments Will they hammer out a victory? French soldier-blacksmiths at the forge in a wrecked smithy in the village of Verdun |