The foundations and principles of modern armoured warfare did not appear out of a vacuum, and nor did the machines of WW1 and WW2.
Later, in WW1 his early work with the Landships Committee on tracked vehicles sought to break the stalemate of tre.
Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton was a pioneer in electrical engineering and road haulage who, by the turn of the century found himself in South Africa during the Boer War.
Their development was full of false starts, failed ideas, and missed opportunities.
The foundations and principles of modern armoured warfare did not appear out of a vacuum, and nor did the machines of WW1 and WW2