Sentence examples for traction engine from inspiring English sources
noun
A wheeled steam engine used to move heavy loads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.
He answered several questions, wheezing like a traction engine rally.
4.43pm BST This guy's actually got a traction engine for a foot.
It was like being upgraded from a seized-up traction engine to a V8 automatic.
Finally, simulations of traction engine multiple faults are conducted to illustrate the proposed method.
He was killed on Easter Monday 1882, thrown from a carriage under a steam-powered traction engine.
The system, which has been developed by Hitachi in Japan, consists of a battery-assisted diesel-electric traction engine.
The PTA parked the cars, the Carnival Club traction engines made electricity.
Vintage traction engines, congregated for the 45th Masham Steam Engine and Fair Organ Rally, were raising steam.
I spend a lot of time in fields with traction engines, fun fairs and fetes and I wave a bucket.
In 1902 residents Charles Hart and Charles Parr produced one of the first gasoline traction engines for agricultural and industrial use.
The engineer and conservationist Jonathan Minns, who has died aged 75, spent a large part of his adult life happily immersed in a world of steam, encompassing giant Victorian beam engines, traction engines, engines for boats and horse-drawn fire engines.
