The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 60
much, either forward or backward,tlie links c, c, will come in contact with the pieces m, and he pre-vented from moving further. This horizontal movement of theaxle will only occur when the railway deviates from a straight line ;but when the carriage again pursues a straight course, the axlewill… … Fig 5. elevation; to allow the axles to move laterally, as well as in a for-ward and backward direction, in order that, in a carriage havingthree or four ]>airs of wheels, the hind wheels may fidlow the frontpair, not always in a straight line, as they are now obliged to do(whereby a continuous…
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