In my research on Arthur Paul Pedrick I never found a definitive list of all of the patents Arthur had approved. The Wikipedia article on A P Pedrick at present wrongly states that he “filed for 162 United Kingdom patents between 1962 and his death in 1976”. Through lots and lots of searching on Espacenet and looking up his self references I found 163 of his UK patents. I don’t know for sure that’s all of them but I will still list them here for the benefit of anyone else out there who is looking for a list of Pedrick Patents. They are a real range of serious to silly and show an incredible appetite for invention and imagination that I am massively jealous of. Some of the patent titles alone I love, particularly #73, #121 and of course #153 the legendary GB1426698A.

1. GB918327A Inflatable air cushioned transporting sledge
2. GB922386A Combination piston-turbine internal combustion engine
3. GB922977A Anti-roll ship stabiliser
4. GB925268A Air cushioning ball support bearing
5. GB925269A Improvements in air cushioned ball support units
6. GB926207A Improved air cushioned ball support units
7. GB929853A Skim Craft
8. GB929989A Improvements in Heat Exchangers
9. GB931664A Improvements in skim craft
10. GB935130A Improvements in fuel element arrangements for nuclear reactors
11. GB936762A Improvements in skim craft
12. GB936763A Improvements in skim craft
13. GB943391A Improvements in air cushioned ball support units
14. GB944195A Improvements in combined piston-turbine internal combustion engines
15. GB946200A Improvements in air cushioned ball support units
16. GB949089A Improvements in automobile vehicles
17. GB951076A Preventing collisions at sea
18. GB955922A Improvement in “skim craft,” being craft adapted for movement in proximity to, but in substantially continuous separation from, a flat undersurface
19. GB955923A Improvements in craft adapted to skim over water or flat land areas
20. GB957135A Suction apparatus for retaining personnel in vehicles or aircraft in their seats
21. GB958333A Improvements in naval aircraft carriers
22. GB960553A Improvements in craft adapted to move in close proximity to, but separated from, a relatively flat land or water surface
23. GB962298A Improvements in combined piston-turbine internal combustion engines
24. GB970631A Air film bearings, particularly for railway vehicles
25. GB981436A Improvements in compression-ignition reciprocating engines
26. GB984148A Improvements in gas turbine power units, particularly for automobiles
27. GB992921A Automatic Boot and Shoe Cleaning Machine
28. GB993808A Improvements in the propulsion of supramarine craft
29. GB997543A Improvements in combination piston turbine internal combustion engines
30. GB997737A Reduction in hydrodynamic drag of water buoyant vessels
31. GB997738A Improvements in marine propulsion utilising energy from nuclear fission
32. GB997739A Improvements in air layer supported marine craft
33. GB1006303A Rotary cylinder internal combustion engine
34. GB1012971A Improvements in skim craft
35. GB1022374A Marine cargo trains with hydrodynamic drag reduction by air separation layer and propulsion by nuclear powered towing craft in relation to the international transport of Food and other Supplies in Bulk
36. GB1031309A Apparatus for growing crops on sea areas
37. GB1032689A Improvements in radio controlled nuclear energy propelled marine towing craft
38. GB1038320A Apparatus for growing and watering crops on sea areas
39. GB1042541A Distillation of sea water employing nuclear energy
40. GB1047735A Arrangements For The Transfer of Fresh Water from One Location on the Earth’s Surface to Another at a Different Latitude, for the Purpose of Irrigation, with Pumping Energy Derived from the Effect of the Earth’s Rotation about the Polar Axis
41. GB1047736A Improvements in the irrigation of large tracts of land
42. GB1053508A Improvements in “Floating Fields” and “Farms” with Desalination of Sea Water by Energy from Fluid Fuels
43. GB1066049A Improvements in the propulsion of marine and supra marine vessels or craft
44. GB1066050A Improvements in means of propulsion for marine and supra marine vessels or craft
45. GB1067703A Submarine cargo trains, with arrangements for the use of obsolete or surplus nuclear submarines
46. GB1080189A Sea bed anchorage device
47. GB1085459A Improvements in gas turbine jet engines particularly for vertical take off and landing delta wing sub and supersonic aircraft
48. GB1086697A Emergency descent arrangements in rear jet mounted subsonic and supersonic aircraft
49. GB1096897A Machine for producing spheres of compacted material, particularly snow, for transfer by pipe line to a desert area, for the irrigation thereof
50. GB1098212A Air cargo trains, for use in an integrated world transport system using standard freight containers
51. GB1111845A Improvements in hypersonic VTOL aircraft
52. GB1117054A Gas turbine heated hot air buoyant airships
53. GB1119948A Laser ray beam gun, or concentrator, for use in polar regions, accelerating crop growth, and promoting nuclear fusion reactions
54. GB1121630A Improvements in the Flight Direction and Location of Golf Balls
55. GB1130107A Desalination of sea water by reverse osmosis using tidal energy
56. GB1132199A Floating cities for relieving population pressures on the land masses
57. GB1134312A Improvements in sailing ships
58. GB1141138A Desalination of sea water, using reverse osmosis, in vessels submerged at depths for sufficient hydrostatic pressure
59. GB1153249A Tower With Revolving Restaurants and Other Amenities
60. GB1155660A Survival Capsules for marine use
61. GB1174717A Coupling for Lengths of Pipe Line
62. GB1175916A Hot Air Bomb, or Internal Combustion Boiler, particularly for Producing Underwater Bubbles, for use, especially, in Polar Regions
63. GB1192139A Improvements in the Design of Golf Clubs
64. GB1195946A Fan or Multi-Swing Wings, to Reduce Wing Loading in large Multi-Seat Passenger Aircraft to Make Possible “Pancake” Emergency Landings, Using a Stabilising Parachute, and to enable an Aircraft, Convertible to an Automobile to be Stored in an Automobile Garage
65. GB1203136A Improvements In The Irrigation Of Deserts By Snow Piped From Polar Regions For The Purpose Of Minimising The Impending World Famine
66. GB1203166A Swinging, or Suspended, Multi-Deck Cities
67. GB1204639A Internal Combustion Capsules
68. GB1204648A Improvements in Semi-Buoyant Tubes
69. GB1204649A Cruciform, Kite and Parachute Aircraft
70. GB1205200A Improvements in Artificial Respiratory Devices for Purposes Similar to those Fulfilled by Devices of the Type Known as “Iron Lungs”
71. GB1206260A Wave Length Selective Light Screens
72. GB1206580A Sonar Pulse Emitting Submarine Cable For Guidance of Surface and Submarine Vessels, and their Detection with Special Reference to an Investigation of the Loch Ness Monster
73. GB1207698A Generator of Electricity from Waves of Gaseous Plasma, Preferably Produced by Lazer Beam Initiated Nuclear Fusion Reactions
74. GB1209290A Improvements in the Design, Structure, and Safety of Large Aircraft
75. GB1211937A Airscrew Sailing Ships
76. GB1215611A Prime Mover or Motor, Operable by any Pressurised Fluid, Particularly for Incorporation in the Wheel Structures of Automotive Vehicles
77. GB1237189A Emergency Landing System, Particularly for Aircraft with High Aspect Ratio Wings
78. GB1237190A Apparatus for Towing by Ships for Removal of Oil Slicks and Other Forms of Buoyant Pollutants from a Water Surface
79. GB1246069A Improvements in Polarising Spectacles based on a Double Helix Structure of Light and other Electromagnetic Waves
80. GB1251780A Improvements in Tees, or Devices for Supporting Golf Balls prior to a Driving Stroke Particularly for Practicing a Golf Swing
81. GB1254810A Improvements in Bumper Bars or End Guard Members to Destroy the Rectangularity of Planform of an Automobile, to Reduce the Injurious Effects of Impacts with other Automobiles, or Objects
82. GB1255915A Fluid Pressure Motor, Particularly for Automobile Propulsion
83. GB1256350A Television using Colours Produced by Light Ray Scan of Prismatic Surfaces on Screens of Glass or other Suitable Materials
84. GB1280928A Apparatus for the Comparison of Coded Pressure Pulse Registrations for Use in Filing Systems in Space to Improve the efficiency of the International Patent System and Application to the Recognition of “Voice Prints” to operate Devices by Words of Command
85. GB1282391A Improvements in Laser Beam Compression Guns
86. GB1287207A Improvements in Semi-Buoyant Tubes
87. GB1299270A Apparatus for Perforating Material with Very Small Holes Using Electrode Spark Discharge in an Evacuated Space in Magnetic Fields Between Like Magnetic Poles
88. GB1311140A Minute Particle, or “True Atom”, Beam Microscope Intended Primarily for High Magnification of Living Cells, or Biological Structures, Particularly for Cancer Research
89. GB1317330A Converting Electrical Energy to Kinetic Energy in Massive Fly Wheels for Reconversion to Electrical Energy to Meet Peak Demands in National Electricity Supply Systems
90. GB1319510A Improvements in Steam Jet Reactive Marine Propulsion Units
91. GB1325996A Massive Steam Driven Flywheels for Combined Electricity Generation and Desalination Plant, Particularly for the Irrigation of Littoral Areas of Deserts
92. GB1331655A Improvements in the Design of Saucer Shaped Flying Machines
93. GB1331862A Arrangements for Establishing a Pipe Line Across Deep Snow, Subject to Frequent Fresh Snow Falls, in a Manner Such that the Pipe Line will be Retained on the Surface of the Snow Layer
94. GB1332025A Improvements in the Construction of Automobiles
95. GB1332079A Electromagnetically Operated Tubular Pump
96. GB1332202A Inclined Ramps for Engagement by Vehicles to Generate Electricity
97. GB1332203A Road Trailer for Hard Top Automobiles
98. GB1332209A Electro-Magnetically Operated Diaphragm Pump Particularly for Use with “Iron Lungs”, or Other Respiratory Apparatus
99. GB1332529A Improvements in Supersonic Transport Aircraft
100. GB1333157A Improvements in Air Screw Sailing Ships
101. GB1333194A Improvements in Electrical Comparison Systems
102. GB1333343A Improvements in Plant for Generating Electrical Energy and Desalination of Water
103. GB1333348A Improvements in Automobile Construction
104. GB1333548A Internally Explosive Nail
105. GB1334497A Improvements in Flash Boiling, Steam Jet Reactive, Marine Propulsion Systems
106. GB1334503A Coloured Light Ray Scanning System for N.T.S.C-PAL Colour TV Transmissions
107. GB1334640A Speed of Light Regulated Clock
108. GB1334880A Small Power Gas Turbine for generating Electricity from Carboniferous Waste Materials or One Candle
109. GB1335771A Vertical Take Off and Landing Wingless Aircraft
110. GB1336082A Endless Tracks for Ships and Amphibious Vehicles
111. GB1336473A Small Solid Fuelled Gas Turbines
112. GB1337383A Generating Electricity by Using Worked Out, or Uneconomic Coal Mines, as Compressed Air Reservoirs, or Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers
113. GB1337936A Apparatus for Initiating Deuterium-Tritium Fusion
114. GB1338121A Vacuum Tube Trains for Fumeless High Speed Overhead Supra and Submarine Transportation of Animate and Inanimate Loads
115. GB1339414A Exploding Bombs To Create Underground Shelters
116. GB1339707A Cross-Shaped Wind-Driven Electricity Generator
117. GB1340664A Variable Speed Magnetic Motor with Minimal Servicing or Maintenance Requirements
118. GB1345288A Improvements in Aerial Ships Supported by Vacuum Balls or Other Forms of Evacuated Vessels
119. GB1346165A Generating Electricity by Burning Oil or Gas on the Seabed
120. GB1348477A Colour Television Using Light Ray Created Images
121. GB1350746A Using Warning Lights to Prevent Motorists Bashing into, and Killing Each Other, Particularly on High Speed Motorways in Fog
122. GB1350885A Arrangements for Using Wasted Energy
123. GB1351926A Improvements in Tea Strainers
124. GB1353727A Apparatus for Producing Electricity from Thermonuclear Reactions
125. GB1357769A Reactor for Release of Energy from Nuclei of Atoms by Centrifugal Disintegration without a Chain Reaction
126. GB1361962A Earth Orbital Bombs as Nuclear Deterrents
127. GB1366285A A Control System for Regulating the Speed of Deuterium-Tritium Tip Bullets Required to Implode upon One Another to Produce A Controlled Nuclear Fusion Reaction
128. GB1374399A An Electron-microscope for Use on Living Cells
129. GB1388367A A Process for Producing Hydrogen and Electricity from Sea, River or Lake Water
130. GB1388517A Electrically Operated Index and Comparison System
131. GB1391569A Miniature-Image Producing Spectacles And Binoculars
132. GB1394639A Improvements in Automobiles Driven from the Back Seat
133. GB1395137A Photo-Electric Generator, Particularly for Recharging the Batteries of Earth Orbital Space Satellites by Laser Beams, with a Possible Explanation of Colour Sight
134. GB1405575A Propelling Automobiles without using Petrol, or Gasolene
135. GB1405737A Large Flat Based Aircraft, Capable of Hovering Flight, Particularly for the Transport of Lengths of Pipe Line
136. GB1405739A Vtol Aircraft of Cruciform Shape with Parachute Landing Capability in an Emergency
137. GB1408689A Improvements in Arrangements for Examining or Drilling the Seabed
138. GB1409210A A Plant for the Thermonuclear Fusion of Deuterium Obtained from Sea Water
139. GB1411203A Using Gas Turbines to Generate Electricity from any Waste Combustible Materials to Overcome the ‘Energy Crisis’
140. GB1411354A Using Electrostatic Levitation to Reduce the Resistance to the High Speed Movement of Ice or Oil Filled Balls in Tubes, with an Explanation of the Enigma of the Nucleus of the ‘Splittable Atom’
141. GB1414286A Nuclear Power Plant with Emergency Ejection of Reactor Core
142. GB1414601A Using the Pull of a Beam of Light on a Liquid Surface to Explain Colour Sight, with the Provision of a Chromatic Selection Device
143. GB1415487A Reducing the Tendency of a Golf Ball to Slice or Hook, by Electrostatic Forces
144. GB1415629A Improvements in ‘True Atom’ or Graviton Beam Microscopes, Particularly for Cancer Research
145. GB1416666A Sea Bed Crawling Submarine Craft
146. GB1420426A Electricity Generation by Nuclear Fission Reactor and Closed Cycle Gas Turbines, with Core Automatically Shut Down by Coolant Flow Failure and Dropped out of Plant for Sealing if Temperature is Excessive
147. GB1420589A Improvements in Nuclear Fission Reactors with Arrangements for Ejecting the Core in an Emergency
148. GB1421240A Improvements in Mortarless Brick Work to Reduce House Building Costs
149. GB1421521A Improvements in Centrifugal Nucleon Disintergration or CND Reactors
150. GB1421712A Improvements in Centrifugal Nucleon Disintergration or ‘Streaked Nuclei’ Reactors
151. GB1424509A Improvements in Streaking Nuclear Reactors
152. GB1426580A Using Magnetic Coils to Produce Periodically Applied Forces to Maintain the High Speed Movement of Bodies and Vehicles, Particularly in Tubes Evacuated of Air
153. GB1426698A Photon Push-Pull Radiation Detector for use in Chromatically Selective Cat Flap Control and 1,000 Megaton, Earth-Orbital, Peace-Keeping Bomb
154. GB1426983A Nuclear Reactor for Release of Nuclear Energy, without a Chain Reaction using the Simultaneous Implosion of Three, or more, Atomic Nuclei
155. GB1428297A Apparatus for Maintaining the High Speed Movement of Bodies in a Tube
156. GB1438618A Improvements in ‘True Atom’ or Graviton Particle Beam Microscopes, Particularly for Cancer Research
157. GB1439086A Large Flat Based Low Flying Aircraft Using Fasces, or Bundles of Bodies of Existing Large Aircraft, such as the Boeing 747
158. GB1439297A Improvements in Arrangements for Initiating A Controlled Fusion Reaction Using Deuterium And Tritium Pellets In Imploding Bullets Fed With Powerful Laser Beam Pulses
159. GB1439440A Internal Combustion Engine Operative on Encapsulated Fuels
160. GB1442869A Apparatus for Inflation in an Emergency to Provide Additional Buoyancy for Boats, Yachts or Ships in Danger of Sinking or Capsizing
161. GB1447848A Using Neutron Beams for a Microscope for Cancer Research or for Cancer Surgery
162. GB1447940A Improvements in Construction and Propulsion of Ships, Carrying Oil, or Bulk Cargoes
163. GB1453920A Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires in High Rise Block Buildings of Uniform Transverse Cross-Section, or Plan

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