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 Locomotives and Cars v 127 n 9 Sept 1953 p 90)
Cars may soon float on air
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 155 , n 2
1953
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