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American carriage showcasing thoroughbrace suspension—note the black straps running across the side of the undercarriage. An early form of suspension on ox-drawn carts had the platform swing on iron chains attached to the wheeled frame of the carriage. This system remained the basis for most suspension systems until the turn of the 19th ...
A leaf spring is a simple form of spring commonly used for suspension in wheeled vehicles. Originally called a laminated or carriage spring, and sometimes referred to as a semi-elliptical spring, elliptical spring, or cart spring, it is one of the oldest forms of vehicle suspension. A leaf spring is one or more narrow, arc-shaped, thin plates ...
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
76 mm gun motor carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm gun motor carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT(A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track) 81 mm mortar carrier M4/A1; M21 mortar carrier; T19 howitzer motor carriage; T30 howitzer motor carriage
Suspension to absorb shocks between the bogie frame and the rail vehicle body. Common types are coil springs, leaf springs and rubber airbags. At least one wheelset, composed of an axle with bearings and a wheel at each end. The bolster, the main crossmember, connected to the bogie frame through the secondary suspension. The railway car is ...
The John B. Judkins Company of West Amesbury, Massachusetts, carriage and automobile body manufacturers built their first automobiles in the 1890s. West Amesbury, since re-named Merrimac , was an early center of American carriage-building.
Anchor was one of the largest carriage building companies in the region, [7] and at its peak in 1897, manufactured 125 buggies, surreys and phaetons a day. [ 8 ] [ 1 ] In later years, Anchor shared its production line with the Lion Buggy Co.; the combined firm was one of the first carriage manufacturers to set up a production line with each ...
1909 American Traveler 1913 American Underslung. Harry C. Stutz, who later formed a company bearing his name, designed the first car for the new enterprise. However, Stutz quickly left and Fred L. Tone took over as chief engineer in 1906. Tone re-designed the chassis (frame) below the axles and the semi-elliptic leaf spring suspension system ...