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Size: 0.78" (19.9mm) long
Work on Little Willie's predecessor was begun in July 1915 by the Landship Committee to meet The United Kingdom's requirement in World War I for an armoured combat vehicle able to cross an 8-foot (2.4 m) trench. After several other projects where single and triple tracks had failed, on 22 July William Ashbee Tritton, director of the agricultural machinery company William Foster & Company of Lincoln, was given the contract to develop a "Tritton Machine" with two tracks. It had to make use of the track assemblies lengthened tracks and suspension elements (seven road wheels instead of four) purchased as fully built units from the Bullock Creeping Grip Tractor Company in Chicago.
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