the "Pedrail" system by Diplock in 1904, pages 90-94 and 113-117 of the Automotor Journal

To see a couple more: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/diplocks-pedrail-what-name-somebody.html

if you want to read about it http://books.google.com/books?id=63QnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA699&dq=belgian++pipe&hl=en&ei=Xc1GTqjoCIGssQLRscSSCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=belgian%20%20pipe&f=false

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Diplock's Pedrail. What a name! Somebody should call their band this name.

If it had caught on, we'd still know about it, but it is a interesting idea for rough terrain, maybe rocky terrain. Reminds me immediately of these other two unusual ideas in rim/wheel design http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/justacargal-found-most-unusual.html

Found on http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/

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