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2. Curtiss Aerocar - Wikipedia

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   The Aerocar applied the fifth-wheel trailer concept used predominantly in the goods hauling industry for small business, public transport and recreational use. He applied aircraft construction methods to road vehicles including the Aerocar and was a pioneer of the automobile streamlining movement a decade before it became popular in 1930.

3. Trailer (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A fifth-wheel coupling is also referred to as a kingpin hitch and is a smaller version of the semi-trailer "fifth wheel". Though a fifth wheel and a gooseneck trailer look much the same, their method for coupling is different. A fifth wheel uses a large horseshoe-shaped coupling device mounted 1 foot (0.30 m) or more above the bed of the tow ...

4. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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   M116 chassis: trailer, 3 ⁄ 4-ton, 2-wheel (G748); chassis version of M101 trailer photos m116 trailer.php M116 carrier, cargo, f-t, soft skin, amphibious, Husky M116 carrier, personnel, full-track, steel armor not aluminum

5. Car carrier trailer - Wikipedia

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   Like other semi-trailers, most commercial car carrier trailers attach to the tractor using a fifth wheel coupling. Trailers can either be enclosed, possessing walls like a conventional box trailer, which affords the shipped vehicles more protection at the cost of lower capacity; or open, as in the commonly seen skeletal tube steel design, which ...

6. Recreational vehicle - Wikipedia

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   Camper or Travel trailer Trailer: 13 to 35 ft (4.0 to 10.7 m) Uses tow hitch attached to rear frame of towing vehicle Fifth wheel Trailer: 17 to 40 ft (5.2 to 12.2 m) Uses fifth-wheel coupling centered above rear axle of towing vehicle Folding / Pop-up: Trailer: 8 to 16 ft (2.4 to 4.9 m) With collapsable sides that are stowed during towing

7. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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   Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...