Despite the A7V’s engine output and suspension, the design was top-heavy and not particularly effective in off-road conditions. Several photos and videos of the A7V can be seen here and here.

As the A7Vs headed to war, the tank’s designer Joseph Vollmer worked a light, three-crewed design called the Leichter Kampfwagen, or light combat car. Basically, it was an armored tractor with a ...

Villers-Bretonneux sight of world’s first tank battle THE Germans were nothing if not persistent. They had failed to break through to Amiens in late March and early April 1918. So on the morning ...

Mephisto was deployed against Australian soldiers in France, but the Australians managed to steal the tank from right under the noses of the German army.

The Mephisto WW1 A7V German tank on permanent display at Qld Museum takes its name from the painting of Germanic evil spirit Mephistoheles depicted with an English tank under his arm.

Villers-Bretonneux sight of world’s first tank battle THE Germans were nothing if not persistent. They had failed to break through to Amiens in late March and early April 1918. So on the morning ...

The last remaining First World War German A7V tank. Panzerkampfwagen 506, Mephisto, is the only surviving A7V unit anywhere in the world. July 28, 2015 — 12.47pm ...

The only remaining German A7V tank in the world has returned to the Queensland Museum to be at the heart of the Anzac Legacy Gallery, marking a century since the end of World War I. The Mephisto ...

Mephisto is on loan to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Karleen Minney It was the last surviving original German A7V tank and was captured by Australian troops in 1918, when it was found ...