Sentence examples for chassis in the from inspiring English sources

Detroit began designing camping trailers on standard truck chassis in the 1950's.

Mr. Bl?ot mounted a float inside his plane's chassis in the event of a water landing, but otherwise took no further safety precautions.

They have their origins in 19th-century England and evolved for use on automobile chassis in the 20th century, usually with two front doors and a rear tailgate.

Translation: he is using the kit as a canvas for his own coach-work skills, the same way coachbuilders did with real Rolls-Royce and Bugatti chassis in the 30's.

"Langley and Homer Collyer kept towers of newspapers, piles of junk in the apartment, an old automobile chassis in the basement," Mr. Tauranac said -- 120 tons in all, including 14 pianos, with booby-trapped aisles between the piles.

What is of more importance is the carbonfibre body draped on a tubular aluminium chassis, in the middle of which sits a custom-made 4.0-litre twin-turbo flat-six engine.

The chassis, in which the engine was repositioned much farther back, was updated with many aluminum components, modern disc brakes and an independent rear suspension, all maximized for the highest possible performance.

The rules dictate that the chassis in front of the driver must be 625mm above the floor of the car, and that the height of the front of the chassis by his feet - the front bulkhead - must be 525mm.

As a result, Todd St. Clair of Ingersoll, Ontario, who runs Canadian Poncho, a site for Canadian Pontiac enthusiasts and collectors, said that when Pontiac body shells were placed on Chevrolet chassis in Canada, the cars' wheels were noticeably, and awkwardly, inset.

The company started producing bus chassis in 1950, and the superstructures were built by a number of Finnish coach builders.

Schumacher will be using a different chassis in Barcelona this weekend, the one he had in pre-season testing, and the car's wheelbase has been extended to allow for better weight distribution.