Trials with the sole prototype on the Salisbury Plain, c. 1917.Prototype Pedrail troop transport developed as an offshoot of the Landship Committee.
The Pedrail Machine was an experimental British armoured fighting vehicle of the First World War. It was intended initially to be used as an armoured personnel carrier on the Western Front, but the idea was dropped in favour of other projects. Work on the machine was re-directed so that it could be used as the basis of a mobile flamethrower, but it was never completed and saw no action.
The PedrailMachine was an experimental British armoured fighting vehicle of the First World War. It was intended initially to be used as an armoured...
supply tank Mark I fitted with wireless communications Mark IX PedrailMachine † Salvage Machine United States Holt 150 ton field monitor * Holt G9 armored...
The pedrail wheel is a type of all-terrain wheel developed in the late 19th and early 20th century by Londoner Bramah Joseph Diplock. It consists of a...
9 August 1918) was an English inventor who invented the pedrail wheel in 1899 and the pedrail chaintrack, a type of caterpillar track, in 1907. Diplock...
the idea for land ironclads using "pedrails" from an inventor J. W. Dunne, who spoke of "big fat pedrailmachines" in a letter to Wells. Dunne later also...
in Watlington, Oxfordshire. John Cyril Porte John Lankester Parker PedrailMachine Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry "Naval & Military intelligence"...
in combat. Some examples include the Steam Tank and General Jackson's Pedrail prototype. The successes of the Soviet defense industry, in the late 1920s...
pedestrian, Litter (vehicle) or a walking machine Horse riding Caterpillar tracks (operated by wheels) Pedrail wheels, using aspects of both wheel and caterpillar...
attachments are similar to the pedrail connections, albeit much more simple. Quick, Graeme R. (2007). Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land...
Looking like a helmet on 'footed' Boydell wheels, early forerunners of the Pedrail wheel, it was essentially an armoured steam tractor equipped with cannon...
the use of large, armed, armoured cross-country vehicles equipped with pedrail wheels (an invention which he acknowledged as the source for his inspiration)...
sometimes interpreted as tanks, they are described by Wells as having pedrail wheels rather than continuous tracks. The original Russian term used in...
from the Landship Committee. The concept of a 1,000-ton armored, fighting machine on land quickly became too impractical and too costly for it to be realistically...
tractor and drove it to Port Augusta, South Australia. For a while Bottril's pedrails were offered as an optional feature by McDonald's on their farm and industrial...
flow and thus act as a tank track. Excavator Half-track Kégresse track Pedrail wheel Recreational products Screw-propelled vehicle Snowcat Snowmobile...
into being. However, Wells's vehicles were driven by steam and moved on pedrail wheels, technologies that were already outdated at the time of writing...
of an EEF attack by mounted troops and infantry. With firmer ground the pedrails came off the guns and their teams of eight and ten horses were reduced...
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