underframe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of underframe
Example Sentences
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Those angle cocks had come into contact with the underframe of the third train car, closing the valves and rendering the air brakes ineffective.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2018
He followed them with rock drills, presses giving unheard-of high powers, improved wood distilling and now an underframe for railway cars that is revolutionary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The underframe is provided with spring axle boxes, and also with spring buffers and drawbars.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various
For gages of 20 inches and upward the motors can be mounted on springs and attached to the running axles inside of the wagon underframe.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various
Its place was then supplied by other and better vehicles,—though they were no other than old stage-coach bodies purchased by the company, and each mounted upon an underframe with flange-wheels.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
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