Meaning of wheelspan | Babel Free

Definitions

The distance between two wheels on the same axle.

Examples

“6 WHEELERS / WHEELSPANS UP TO 18’ 0””

“A Job-Rated version of the 1-ton P300 with lower 6,000 lbs. GVW and the same 104 in. and 126 in. wheelspans.”

“Engines and gearbox acted as cross-members for a massive frame that carried the Silver Bullet’s 6,000lb on a wheelbase of 185 inches. This huge wheelspan was found disadvantageous after the Sunbeam crew decanted their Bullet at Daytona Beach in March⟳ 1930 with the aim of reaching 250mph, the car’s 300-mph design⟳ speed⟳ being held in reserve⟳.”

“We’re already pushing the envelope of acceptability with a longer fork, the wheelspan and the sloping top tube.”

“In the 1920s the firm had produced just two models of car: a large Straight Eight, designed to compete⟳ with Rolls-Royce (which it signally failed to do); and, from 1925, the Trojan, a solid-wheeled ‘utility car’ with a wheelspan that exactly matched that of most of Britain tramlines, triggering a number⟳ of horrific accidents and unintended diversions.”

“The rhomboidal design⟳ of the Mk I, with the tracks running around the outside of the hull, meant that it had an equivalent “wheelspan” to a wheeled vehicle with 60-foot (18 m) wide wheels!”

“Longer wheelspan and wider axles increase⟳ the overall stability and decrease agility through difficult, narrow trial gates. […] Slight bending of the chassis, for example a few millimeters in the center of a 48-stud long wheelspan, is acceptable; […]”

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