Industry Line
Building tanks in the 1910's had to be quick and had to involve a simple design in order to get an average size of, "Land-ships", out into the battlefield. Two countries started earlier in the years and had a very smooth fluent idea and were able to get thousands onto the battlefield. Those two were UK and France. The design requirements were the following: It needed a top speed of 4 mph, turn sharply at top speed, crew of ten men, armament of one artillery cannon and two machine guns, needs to cross an 8-ft gap, and needs a worry free working radius of 20 miles and most tanks in this era did not meet these requirements or come close. The production line on most countries were overall very slow. Italy didn't start producing tanks until 1918 and they only made 6 and never used one. Germany ended the war with only being able to produce 20 tanks even when their were hundreds of Sturmpanzerwagens ordered. The U.S came into the war very late but started producing tanks and ended having over 80 tanks. The U.K produced tanks very early in the war and began with 150 tanks in 1916 and increased production extremely fast and had 1,277 tanks in 1917 and when the war ended they ended with close to 2000 produced (1,918). The same with France. They started with 0 in 1916, 800 in 1917, and amazingly was able to produce 3,200 tanks in one year giving them 4000 tanks produced at the end of 1918.