axle-driven

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axle-driven (not comparable)

  1. Driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.
    • 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:
      The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.
    • 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
      Another type has electric air circulation, supplied by axle-driven generators.