Britain used to have Mark series tank in WW1 wasn't it?

Question

And was there any similarity with Germany's Mark IV etc in WW2?

Answer 1

The Mark 1, Mark 2, etc. is just another way of saying model.
Sort of like how Windows had 3.0, 3.1, then went to year numbers '95, 98, etc. It was a way of designating the first design from the second design, from the third design, etc.

The fact that the Brits called their first tanks "Mark 1, and Mark 2" has no relationship to the fact that the Germans also called the tanks they designed 30 years later Mark 1, Mark 2, etc. In both cases it was just an engineering term to make clear which model of tank you were talking about.

If I recall correctly the British Tanks were also called "Male" and "Female". Here is a good site on the early British Tanks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/nonflash_tank.shtml

This is a good link to the Panther Tank (Technically the Panzerkampfwagen Mark V)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank

You can see how far tank design came in 35 years.

Answer 2

yes the marks stood for the different evolutions that the British made in there tank development.
It all started with little willie ( a pet name ) still a prototype but already with armour all around and the first real tank is mother( first named big willie but changed to mother because this is the model from witch the mark I is development ) .
Mark I is the first tank used by the Brits troops. This type and also the next generations are divided in female ( only machine guns ) and male ( guns and machine guns) .the first use of the mark I was in 15 September 1916.
Because the mark I wasn't very easy to drive they made very quickly better tanks like the mark II and later on the must used mark IV .

The only similarity between the mark's of the Brits WW I and the German mark's in WW II is that they both indicated the evolution of development but for the rest there is absolute no similarity between them

side note : the name tank comes from the disguise that the Brits used the vehicles where called water tanks to disguise the German spy's.
In the second WW the Brits used also a mark indication for they tanks see there cruiser tanks.
The German tiger, panter and king tiger had also a mark number
nl. respectively VI, V and for the king tiger also mark VI but they added version B to it = mark VI aus B. Also the mause mark VIII

Answer 3

No similarity other than using the Mark series to denote the different model of their tanks. The Germans called their tanks PzKW (Panzer-kampf wagen or armoured fighting vehicles) which from Mk 1 to Mk 4 were medium battle tanks.

Answer 4

There's a picture of the British Mark 1 at http://www.ramsdale.org/mark1.jpg I think the US used the same vehicle. The British developed the first tanks. The British Navy in fact. Led by Winston Churchill. I have photos of an American Mark1 that's in a museum at Fort Knox, Kentucky. E-mail me if you'd like to see a couple of them.

Answer 5

Mark 1 was used in ww1. mark 2 in ww2

The germans had panzer 4's , and these were better then the mark 2. Cuase the panzer 4 had better range, and stopping power.

They first battled it out in the deserts of Afrika(El Alamein), known Feld Marschalk Rommel's Afrika Korps vs Field Marschal Montgomery's Desert Rats.

In the end the Britts were the victors , because the germans weren't reinforced in time. Also the brittons had larger numbers.