A train comprising a prime mover with two steerable front wheels and two or more rear non steerable wheels, and a semi-trailer with two or more steerable wheels towards the end of the semi trailer, where the rear of the prime mover is rotatably connected to the front of the semi-trailer, where the wheels of the semi-trailer are positively steered to ensure that slave reference point located at the rear of the semi-trailer is made to follow the path traced out by a master reference point located at or near the centre of the rear non-steerable wheels of the prime mover until one semi-trailer wheel angle hits a physical limit, whereafter the semi-trailer wheel angles are held constant until the path of the slave reference point once again coincides with the master path, whereafter all semi-trailer wheels are positively steered in order to keep the slave reference point on the master pat - - - ; - - - --- ------ -.r --- ------ -- ----- FK-S


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    Title :

    Improved Articulated Vehicle


    Contributors:
    SPARK IAN (author)

    Publication date :

    2025-06-05


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



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