![]() ![]() A major arms producer, Schneider, took the lead in January 1915 and tried to build a first armoured vehicle based on the Baby Holt tractor but initially the development process was slow until in July they received political, even presidential, support by combining their project with that of a mechanical wire cutter devised by engineer and politician Jean-Louis Bréton. In France, on the other hand, there were multiple and conflicting lines of development which were badly integrated, resulting in three major and quite disparate production types. Almost all production effort was thus concentrated into the Mark I and its direct successors, all very similar in shape. In Britain a single committee had coordinated design, while the major industries remained passive. While the British began the design and use of tanks in World War I, France at the same time developed its own tracked AFVs, but the situation there was very different.
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