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Show Truck That Walks, lennan engineer has constructed or truck which docs not move on I s, but not unllko Uio Martians bed by II. O. Wells In his "Wat Ip01 o Worlds," can strldo with the t, of "legs" across deserts and . P8, can wade "kneo-deep" through P' , stamp through snowflclds nnd C(? cross ditches, nnd fell tree trunks eat ther obstacles In Its pnth, says a ing. ioan dispatch to the Philadelphia for : Ledger. For this purposo It li pod hod with two pairs of skids, one 5 Ich always rests on the ground, 25 1 tho other Is moving forward with Ll nd. When "walking" normally Pro ride measures about four feet In 1 w i, but, llko a human being, It can ! ito It when walking uphill or stepping across an obrtaclo In its . With Its skids, which are ten ;)ng, It strides along the roads at gtato j of six miles per hour, or about p as fast as nn ordlnnry person . It can go backward, turn com- 1 1,1 f ground Us axles without mov- ,nB 1 'ftirt i)n nnnf nml If nnnn ttrnllr tint n |