Word: axleflex
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Hudson & Terraplane offer as optional equipment "Axleflex," President Roy Dikeman Chapin's answer to knee-action. The wheel-and-spring assembly is traditional but the axle is hinged in the centre by parallel bars, permitting each wheel to bounce independently. President Chapin is convinced that the public is more interested in performance than innovations. Since he returned to Hudson from Washington, where he was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, President Chapin has sent Terraplanes into one hill-climbing contest after another, to hang up some 70 records. And he has pulled Hudson out of its deep, deep...
Nash's regular line featured an optional independent spring front axle somewhat similar in principle to Hudson's "Axleflex...
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