It was made of wood except for its wheels axles which, as I remember, were thin metal rods.
The truck is designed with battery cassettes in the floor of the vehicle between the frame rails and axles.
Broken axles caused countless accidents as railway lines crept across Europe and America.
The new chassis will lower the body, improve stability of the axles and require tyres that hold the road better.
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This configuration also will offer an innovative, variable all-wheel drive system with independent control of the drive forces on both axles.
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The prefabricated buildings are leaving Pennsylvania on "low boy" tractor trailers, with extra axles and lowered beds designed to handle big loads.
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It made motor parts, axles and cam shafts for cars and trucks.
In any case it's slow--usually 3 to 10 miles per hour--and made surprisingly comfortable by the four "telegraph springs" between the axles and coach body.
Eight years ago, you started building axles here alongside the engines.
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Being simply a rotating horizontal shaft with a heavy vertical load on it, early locomotive axles suffered severe stress reversals in their outer skins with every rotation.
The result was a long, shallow aluminum case, measured to fit between the axles and jam-packed with seven hundred and twenty-eight rectangular cells, topped with a fibreglass case.
The 350 Wrexham factory workers will make transmissions and axles.
Contrary to myth, medieval Europe was a font of innovation: water- and wind-powered mills, clocks, eyeglasses, chimneys and the wheelbarrow, as well as advances in shipbuilding, compassmaking and ironmongery (making wagon axles sturdier).
It not only automatically distributes engine power between the front and rear axles as needed, but also between the left and right rear wheels to provide a sporty feel few AWD vehicles can match.
Under Wood Dana would build three things: drivelines (which transfer power from the transmission to the axles), sealing systems (which reduce oil consumption and emissions) and thermal-management systems (which control temperatures in batteries and other components).
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The seeds of disaster were planted in the 1990s, when Dana, flush with cash that came from selling axles and other parts for pickups and SUVs, went on a spending spree, making at least ten big acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad.
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