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Why are tanks called tanks?

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Though the tank was being developed in many countries simultaneously, the first to enter service were constructed by William Foster and Company of Lincoln, England. Sir William Tritton, the designer and MD of the company, recorded that to maintain secrecy the cover story was devised that they were making water cisterns for war use in Mesopotamia. Paperwork described them as "water tanks", and the name "tank" stuck even after their true nature was revealed.

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