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Definition of Dead axle
1. Noun. An axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Axle
Literary usage of Dead axle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1917)
"When a dead axle is used the rear wheels are driven from a countershaft—except
in the very few cases where two motors are used—and the differential gear is ..."
2. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"When a dead axle is used the rear wheels are driven from a countershaft—except
in the very few cases where two motors are used—and the differential gear is ..."
3. Motor Vehicle Engineering: The Chassis by Ethelbert Favary (1922)
"If the dead axle and the live axle do not retain their parallelism there will
... The torque reaction tends to revolve the jackshaft about the dead axle and ..."
4. Automobile Engineering: A General Reference Work by American Technical Society (1920)
"In the case of the Mercedes (German) trucks, on which it has been used since
1900, the driving axle is placed forward of the dead axle. At their outer ends, ..."
5. Automobile Engineering: A General Reference Work by American Technical Society (1921)
"In the case of the Mercedes (German) trucks, on which it has been used since
1900, the driving axle is placed forward of the dead axle. At their outer ends, ..."
6. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"There is very little to be «aid about the chain driven rear axle as the wheels
revolve on the spindle of the dead axle—usually on roller bearings. ..."
7. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1904)
"Countershaft and dead axle Transmissions.—At the present day the typical French
transmission is to drive from the main shaft, through the speed gear to a ..."
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