Joint development of General Tire and Rubber Co, and Timken Roller Bearing Co, is pneumatic cushion spring for application to both freight and passenger cars; air spring looks like rubber life raft with gunwales pressed together and mounted in modified conventional Timken bearing equipped freight truck; air is fed into rubber bellows of air cushion through automatic regulator which maintains constant car body height, regardless of load. (See also Ry Age v 155 n 2 July 13 1953 p 109)
Cars may soon float on air
Ry Locomotives Cars
Railway Locomotives and Cars ; 127 , n 9 ; p 90
1953
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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