Pedrail Machine

Trials with the sole prototype on the Salisbury Plain, c. 1917.
Prototype Pedrail troop transport developed as an offshoot of the Landship Committee.

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 personnel carrier on the Western Front, but the idea was dropped in favour of other projects. Work on the machine was re-directed so that it could be used as the basis of a mobile flamethrower, but it was never completed and saw no action.