"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:55:33 +0200, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>> Yes, they are manned. I seem to remember a scene where one is shot down
>> and the martian inside revealed.
>
> I'll have to reread it - got a copy here on my desk as well as it being
> available through Project Gutenberg.
>
> Jim

The mechs were piloted by Martians.
You'll find it in chapter 4 e.g.
"  I looked up and saw the lower surface of a handling-machine coming slowly 
across the hole.  One of its gripping limbs curled amid the debris; another 
limb appeared, feeling its way over the fallen beams. I stood petrified, 
staring.  Then I saw through a sort of glass plate near the edge of the body 
the face, as we may call it, and the large dark eyes of a Martian, peering, 
and then a long metallic snake of tentacle came feeling slowly through the 
hole."
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/36/36.txt

DLM

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