Bramah Joseph Diplock

A locomotive fitted with Diplock's pedrail wheels, February 7, 1904 The New York Times.

Bramah Joseph Diplock was an English inventor who invented the pedrail wheel in 1903[1][2] and the pedrail chaintrack, a type of caterpillar track, in 1910.

Pedrail Transport Company

Diplock founded the Pedrail Transport Company of Fulham which was, before World War I, the only British company to manufacture "caterpillar" continuous tracks.[3] A demonstration of the system's ability to support a large load for trench warfare was made on 16 February 1915 to Winston Churchill, and may have been influential in the development of the tank.[4]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Motor Vehicles for Business Purposes by A. J. Wallistayler p.271
  2. ↑ Popular Science Sep 1933, p.96
  3. ↑ Men, ideas, and tanks by J. P. Harris, p.18
  4. ↑ Men, ideas, and tanks by J. P. Harris, p.19


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