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Micheline train at the Cité du train museum in Mulhouse, France Micheline tyre and rim. Michelines were a series of rubber-tyred trains developed in France in the 1930s by various rail companies and rubber-tyre manufacturer Michelin. Some Michelines were built in the United States by the Budd Company. [1]
He accompanied his parents, Myles and Margaret, as an infant in 1930–31 on bushwalks in the Blue Mountains. A special perambulator with an iron frame, a wicker basket with hood and rubber-tyred wheels, nicknamed 'the Kanangra Express', was used to wheel him through rough terrain. [2]
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge, with running pads for the rubber-tyred wheels outside of the steel rails The MP 59 ( French : M étro P neu appel d'offres de 19 59 ; English: Rubber-tyred metro ordered in 1959 ) was a rubber-tyred variant of electric multiple units used on the Paris Métro system in service from 1963 to 2024.
Budd's fluted stainless-steel, rubber-tired railcar, the Silver Slipper, in 1933; it is sometimes credited as the first streamlined passenger train. The Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars were built by the Budd Company in the United States between 1931 and 1933 using French firm Michelin's "Micheline" rail car design.
Edward Langley Fardon (11 December 1839 – 9 February 1926) was an English art metalworker, whitesmith and engineer. He built and demonstrated the world's first all-metal bicycle with India rubber tyres in Kenilworth in 1869, incorporating several new design features.
A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology. The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on a roll way inside guide bars for traction. Traditional, flanged steel wheels running on rail tracks provide guidance through switches and act as backup if tyres fail ...
Early Auto-Truck, with small wheels. The Lister Auto-Truck was a small monowheel tractor built for moving light loads around factories, railway yards and similar sites. They were based on a design originally by Auto Mowers Ltd, and were built by R A Lister and Company of Dursley, Gloucestershire, well known for their range of small stationary engines (although the Auto Truck used a J.A.P ...
Merry-go-round hoppers were worked hard however, and the typical livery included a coating of coal dust. Some of the terminals served used stationary shunters to move the wagons forward at low speed. These often featured tyred wheels that gripped the wagon sides, resulting in horizontal streaks on the hopper sides.