The vehicle consisted of the superstructure from a Delaunay-Belleville armoured car, with the turret removed, fitted on a tractor produced by the American company Killen-Strait.

In February 1915, the Landship Committee was formed under instructions by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill to develop armoured fighting vehicles for use on the Western Front.

R. E. B. Crompton, the appointed technical adviser of the committee, was tasked with producing "alternative designs for the wheeled and tracked machines.

The vehicle was driven by Thomas Gerard Hetherington into tensioned barbed wire, across dummy shell holes and small piles of railway sleepers.

It was envisioned for this vehicle to join the RNAS Armoured Car Section, but this was not realized due to the unit's imminent disbandment.