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  2. Dock shunter - Wikipedia

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    A dock shunter, "dock tank", or "docksider", is a locomotive (formerly steam but now usually diesel) used for shunting wagons in the vicinity of docks. It is usually of 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and has a short wheelbase and large buffers. These features make it suitable for negotiating sharp curves.

  3. Volkswagen Caddy - Wikipedia

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    Released in 1995, the Volkswagen Caddy Typ 9K, or Volkswagen Polo Caddy, was a light van, designed by Volkswagen's Spanish subsidiary SEAT, and derived from the SEAT Ibiza 6K, on the Volkswagen Group A03 platform. The area of the cargo floor is 2.6 m 2 (28 sq ft), while the loading volume is 2.9 m 3 (102 cu ft). Typical payload is 550 kg (1,210 ...

  4. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  5. Tank steering systems - Wikipedia

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    Half-track vehicles avoid this by combining steerable wheels and fixed-speed tracks. Early steering systems were adopted from tracked work vehicles, generally using a clutch to reduce power to one track, causing it to slow down. These designs have numerous problems, notably when climbing hills or running at high speed, as the reduction in power ...

  6. User guide - Wikipedia

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    The user guide engraved into a model of the Antikythera Mechanism. User guides have been found with ancient devices. One example is the Antikythera Mechanism, [1] a 2,000 year old Greek analogue computer that was found off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the year 1900.

  7. Line of Duty series 1 - Wikipedia

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    Line of Duty series 1 home media releases; Name DVD release dates Number of episodes Number of discs Region 1 Region 2 Line of Duty - Series One: 29 October 2013 [29] 3 February 2014 [30] 5 2 Line of Duty: Complete Series 1 & 2 — 24 March 2014 [31] 11 4 Line Of Duty: Series 1-3 — 2 May 2016 [32] 17 6 Line of Duty - Series 1-4 — 8 May 2017 ...

  8. Poncelet wheel - Wikipedia

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    Traditional undershot waterwheels consisted of a series of flat blades fixed to the rim of a wheel. The blades were typically radial, i.e. mounted so that they pointed straight out along the radius of the wheel. When water from the headrace flowed past the wheel, it hit the blades, and some of its kinetic energy was converted into work by the ...

  9. Transfer case - Wikipedia

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    Inside of a 231 New Process Gear transfer case. Part-time/Manual, shift on the fly. A transfer case is an intermediate gearbox that transfers power from the transmission of a motor vehicle to the driven axles of four-wheel-drive, all-wheel-drive, and other multi-axled on- and off-road machines.