Timmis system
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Timmis was an innovative design of double coiled springs, originally used for railway rolling stock, such as on the Barsi Light Railway c1889, as formulated by Everard Calthrop (1857–1927).
Inventor[edit]
The inventor was Illius Augustus Timmis[1]
Patent[edit]
US Patent 432341 was filled in 1889 and published in 1890.[1]
See also[edit]
- Bogie as used with railway rolling stock.
- Coil spring
- Leaf spring - an older and simpler system of springs
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