He pointed to two slender car axle rods being shipped to Japan.

He then grabbed a napkin from the table, again reached into the duffel bag and this time pulled out a greasy car axle.

The General Motors system was used to identify car axles in inventory among the 18 models produced at the factory.

"Each car axle had a large iron disk mounted on and revolving with it between the poles of a powerful horseshoe electromagnet.

Also at age 12 he had a job in the railroad industry, inspecting the railroad car axles to make sure they were oiled and greased properly.

Around him, a hundred mechanical looms clack-clacked in deafening unison, spitting miles of linen onto spools as big as car axles.

The plant was originally built in 1959 for the Prestcold fridge company and was later acquired by Ford who manufactured car axle and transmission components there.

Try using the car axle as the frame of reference and you see that you can view this situation as one of stable linear motion of a center of rotation.

Unlike contemporary practice, the rear axle was placed through large openings on both sides of the frame, with rubber snubbers to absorb any shock if the car axle should make contact.

Mentry used his mechanical skills to create improvised tools, including a drill-stem he built out of old railroad car axles, which he purchased from the Southern Pacific and welded together.

Earlier on, McGinness had met a grazier, Fergus McMaster, when McMaster's car axle had broken down on a bed in Cloncurry River.

While Paris was attempting to loosen a rusted car axle bolt with a hammer, he caused a chip of metal to fly into his sighted eye, and as a result was permanently blinded in both eyes.

The Hope Iron Works was founded at Trenton by blacksmiths Graham Fraser and Forrest MacKay in 1872 to produce iron forgings such as anchors for use in wooden sailing ships with the business expanding in 1876 to produce railway car axles.