It features tank-like "land ironclads," 80-to-100-foot-long (24 to 30 m) armoured fighting vehicles that carry riflemen, engineers, and a captain, and are armed with semi-automatic rifles. The story opens with an unnamed war correspondent and a young lieutenant surveying the calm of …

Jul 19, 2018 · The Land Ironclads were 14 large landships built by the devitalized townsmen to assault the defender positions. The machines consisted of a large steel framework borne upon eight pairs of pedrail wheels, a predecessor to tracks which actual tanks would use.

Feb 11, 2020 · Corry’s Land Ironclad was a pre-First World War design from 1911, for a tracked armored vehicle. The vehicle never left the drawing board.

“The Land Ironclads” is a short story by H.G. Wells that originally appeared in the December 1903 issue of the Strand Magazine. It features “land ironclads,” 100-foot-long (30 m) machines that are equipped with remote-controlled guns and that carry riflemen, engineers, and a captain.

Nov 26, 2019 · Multitudinously produced and—I write it with a defiant eye on Colonel Newcome—properly handled, these land ironclads are going to do very great things in shortening the war, in pursuit, in...

"The Land Ironclads" is a short story by British writer H. G. Wells, which originally appeared in the December 1903 issue of the Strand Magazine. It features tank-like "land ironclads," NaNadj=midNaNadj=mid armoured fighting vehicles that carry riflemen, engineers, and a captain, and are armed with semi-automatic rifles. Plot summary

Dec 20, 2010 · H. G. Wells predicts the 20th century again, though his 'land ironclads' - 80 to 100 feet long, carried on rotating feet and armed with remote-controlled rifles - are closer to the Nazis' proposed Landkreuzer or his own tripods than anything ever actually realised.

‘The Land Ironclads’ prophetically sees trench warfare resolved by the technologically superior side’s invention of tanks. View larger image.

The captain of Land Ironclad Number Three had halted on the crest close to his captured half-battery. His lined up prisoners stood hard by and waited for the cyclists behind to come for them. He surveyed the victorious morning through his conning-tower.

The land ironclad had become visible over the brow of the hill, and just visible as a long black back to the gunners. It halted, as though it hesitated. The two remaining guns fired, and then their big antagonist had swung round and was in full view, end on, against the sky, coming at a rush.