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- The pedrail wheel played no part in the design of the first British tanks.
- Some pedrail systems also include internal suspensions to improve their performance over rough ground.
- Some references also use the term pedrail.
- Alternative early'big wheel'designs on the lines of the Pedrail monotrack vehicle proved to be unsuitable.
- Bottrill's design spans the definition, as its cable attachments are similar to the pedrail connections, albeit much more simple.
- Although Wells describes the pedrail wheels in detail, a number of authors have mistakenly taken his description to be of some form of caterpillar track.
- 1904 illustration of H . G . Wells'December 1903 " The Land Ironclads ", showing huge ironclad land vessels, equipped with pedrail wheels
- Pedrail wheels should not be confused with dreadnaught wheels which have articulated rails attached at the rim for the wheel to roll over ( also known as endless railway wheels ).
- In 1910 Diplock abandoned the Pedrail Wheel and began developing what he called the Chaintrack, in which fixed wheels ran on a moving belt, very like the caterpillar track as it is now understood.
- According to one biographer, Wells originally got the idea for land ironclads using " pedrails " from the inventor John William Dunne, who spoke of " big fat pedrail machines " in a letter to Wells.
- In " War and the Future ", H . G . Wells specifically acknowledges Bramah Diplock's pedrail wheel as the origin for his idea of an all-terrain armoured vehicle in " The Land Ironclads ":
- Col R . E . B . Crompton, a veteran military engineer and electrical pioneer, drafted numerous designs with Lucien Legros for armoured troop carrying vehicles and gun-armed vehicles, to have used either Bullock tracks or variants of the Pedrail.