![]() Possibly there were others before Diplock. Diplock, whose “ped-rail” notion, the notion of a wheel that was something more than a wheel, a wheel that would take locomotives up hill-sides and over ploughed fields, was public property nearly twenty years ago. ![]() The idea was suggested to me by the contrivances of a certain Mr. I took up an idea, manipulated it slightly, and handed it on. Yet let me state at once that I was certainly not their prime originator. They were my grandchildren-I felt a little like King Lear when first I read about them. The filiation was indeed quite traceable. Joseph Reinach has successfully passed off long extracts from my story as descriptions of the Tanks upon British officers who had just seen them. I described one in a story in The Strand Magazine in 1903, and my story could stand in parallel columns beside the first account of these monsters in action given by Mr. It would be more than human not to claim a little in this matter.
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