"Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth."
"The cone-shaped entities (now also known as the Great Race of Yith) live in a vast city in what would later become Australia Great Desert."
"Power is transmitted from the engine to wheels using a system of belts and cone-shaped pulleys."