- 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...
- 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...
- had the idea for land
ironclads using "
pedrails" from an
inventor J. W. Dunne, who
spoke of "big fat
pedrail machines" in a
letter to Wells.
Dunne later...
- were
commonly ****ed to
steam traction engines. They are very
similar to
pedrail wheels,
differing primarily in that
their rails are not
connected to the...
-
inventor of the
Pedrail. In an
account of the
demonstration of a
Pedrail tractor to the War
Office in
August 1904 it is
recorded that the
Pedrail tractor was...
- use.
These are not
connected directly to the wheels, but to each other.
Pedrail wheel - A
system of
rails that
holds panels that hold the vehicle. These...
- 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...
-
Looking like a
helmet on 'footed'
Boydell wheels,
early forerunners of the
Pedrail wheel, it was
essentially an
armoured steam tractor equipped with cannon...
- 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...
- 1904
illustration of H. G. Wells' The Land Ironclads,
showing huge
ironclad land vessels,
equipped with
pedrail wheels...
