Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 84
sers that an elaborate andstrongly-constructed underframe is indispensable to an efficient UNDERFRAMES OF MOTOR CARRIAGES. 71 and easy-running automobile carriage that any proposition todispense with it altogether will likely be scouted as impracticable.As a matter of fact, however, one of the most… … Fig. 68.—Duryea Four-wheeled Trap. This carriage, like all others made by the Duryeas,has no underframe; the strongly built body serving as a frame to which the axlesand springs are hung. ing the body, which is unusually strongly and heavily built. Thispractice, following closely on the general…
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