. Official proceedings . ristic of the present style of best knownautomobiles. It will be observed on examination of this cutthat it had the motor cylinders placed in a kind of bonnet inthe fore part of the vehicle with the power transmitted bylingitudinal shaft and beveled gearing to a counter shaft atthe rear in advance of the axle, and from the counter shaft bychain drives to the driving wheels. This is fundamentally thesystem of transmission most commonly used in many of thepresent day constructions, some of them differing slightly,however, in placing the differential gear directly on the
. Official proceedings . ristic of the present style of best knownautomobiles. It will be observed on examination of this cutthat it had the motor cylinders placed in a kind of bonnet inthe fore part of the vehicle with the power transmitted bylingitudinal shaft and beveled gearing to a counter shaft atthe rear in advance of the axle, and from the counter shaft bychain drives to the driving wheels. This is fundamentally thesystem of transmission most commonly used in many of thepresent day constructions, some of them differing slightly,however, in placing the differential gear directly on the driv-ing axle, and driving by the bevel gear on the exterior of thedifferential in that place, doing away thus with the counter- 20 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. shaft, but introducing what is known as the divided axle, andsome difficulties in construction incident thereto which theconstruction shown in Figure n avoids. This structureshown in Figure n also discloses substantially a similar form {UUVUUUUVUVL/lA*. Ftgll. — Steam Coach, 1881: of steering gear to that which has been standard for so manyyears, and about the accepted distribution of weight, whichis with a large proportion of the weight on the driving wheelsto avoid slipping in bad weather. Substantially similar ideas of construction are embodiedin another type shown in Figure 12, which is the vehicle built Automobile vs. Railway Transportation. 21
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