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Early & Ad Free | Whippet – Fast and Furious 1918 | Tank Chats Reloaded
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Enjoy this early access video about the Whippet. Was the British Medium Mk A Whippet the World’s first proper tank? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Able to do 8mph, but incredibly difficult to drive, Whippet was far faster than the British Heavy Tanks of WW1. Using their speed, Whippets were able to operate behind the enemy front line to destroy enemy formations and create chaos. At a stroke, the tank was transformed from what was effective a siege engine to a fast-moving weapon of attack and exploitation.
At Amiens in August 1918, a Whippet called “Musical Box” went on a nine-hour rampage in the German Army’s rearward area destroying an Infantry battalion, a Divisional supply column and an artillery battery, an unheard of feat.
In this film, we look at the Tank Museum’s rare surviving Whippet, what she was like to crew and fight, tell the story of Musical Box’s rampage and examine the unique achievement of the Whippet on the WW1 battlefield.
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The Tank Museum
Hi Ian, the museum has acquired many documents on Tritton that we are currently cataloguing, we will have more updates soon and our patrons will be first to hear of our findings! Here is an article you might be interested in from when we first received the documents. https://tankmuseum.org/article/tritton-mark-i
The Tank Museum
Thank you for the feedback Mat.
Mat Guest
Please can you get rid of the background music? Makes it really hard to understand.
Ian Carr
William Tritton seems to have disappeared from the tank story at end of WW1. He was still alive through WW2 and not an elderly man. What became of him?
