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2. Pullback motor - Wikipedia

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   Pullback motor. A pullback motor (also pull back, pull back and go or pull-back) is a simple clockwork motor used in toy cars. A patent for them was granted to Bertrand 'Fred' Francis in 1952 as a keyless clockwork motor. [1][2] Pulling the car backward (hence the name) winds up an internal spiral spring; a flat spiral rather than a helical ...

3. Trailer (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A boat on a single-axle trailer. A trailer is an unpowered vehicle towed by a powered vehicle. It is commonly used for the transport of goods and materials. Sometimes recreational vehicles, travel trailers, or mobile homes with limited living facilities where people can camp or stay have been referred to as trailers.

4. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 401 - Wikipedia

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   Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 401 (FMVSS 401) is an American standard that establishes the requirement for providing a trunk release mechanism which allows a person trapped inside the trunk compartment of a passenger car to escape. This standard does not apply to vehicles with a hinged back door found on hatchbacks and station wagons.

5. Towing - Wikipedia

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   Large ballast tractor pulling a heavy load (a transformer) on a hydraulic modular trailer using a drawbar. A British Airways Concorde being towed in New York City. Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources. The towing source may be a motorized land vehicle, vessel, animal ...

6. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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   The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. The coupling consists of a kingpin, a 2-or- -inch-diameter (50.8 or 88.9 mm) vertical steel pin protruding from the bottom of the front of the semi-trailer, and a horseshoe-shaped coupling device called a fifth wheel ...

7. Friction motor - Wikipedia

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   A friction motor is a simple mechanism to propel toy cars, trucks, trains, action figures and similar toys. The motor consists of a large flywheel which is connected to the drive wheels of the toy via a gear train with very low gear ratio, so that the flywheel revolves faster. The flywheel's axis is perpendicular to the direction in which the ...