In an 1 Oct 1916, letter to Wells, Churchill thanked him for the idea, and in a 1925 trial over who invented the tank, Winston Churchill testified under oath that the idea had originated with Wells.
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According to one biographer, Wells originally got the idea for land ironclads using "pedrails" from the inventor John William Dunne, who spoke of "big fat pedrail machines" in a letter to Wells.
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