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BASIC ELEPHANT SYMBOLS

The **Flying Elephant** was a proposed super-heavy tank that the British planned to build in World War I. Where the nickname 'Flying Elephant' came from no one knows for sure, though it was probably the result of the trunk-like nose gun, domed front, and enormous bulk combined with a traditional British lightheartedness. The artist could be using a flying elephant in the piece to comment on the destruction in war that comes as a result of industry. -Tyler Rodgers
 * [|William Tritton], co-designer and co-producer of the Mark I, thought he already understood what would prove to be its main weakness. A direct hit by a [|shell] would destroy the vehicle, a major drawback on a battlefield saturated with [|artillery] fire. Tritton decided to design a tank that would be immune to medium artillery fire in April 1916. **