four-wheel brake
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brake
noun[C]
uk/breɪk/us/breɪk/
a device that makes a vehicle go slower or stop, or a pedal, bar, or handle that makes this ...
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(Definition ofbrakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Passenger rolling stock consists of 26 fully enclosed bogie carriages and twofour-wheelbrakevans.
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Those vehicles are being fitted to-day with four-wheel brakes and pneumatic tyres.
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The big rise in 1926 and 1927 was due to the discovery and general adoption of four-wheel brakes on motor-cars.
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I remember the circumstances before the war when four-wheel brakes were introduced and when some of us had only two-wheel brakes.
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I am old enough to remember the days when four-wheel brakes were introduced.
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To-day, they have four-wheel brakes, which mean a great deal when meeting a possible accident.
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Between the wars, four-wheel brakes were introduced.
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That model featured a dashboard radiator and four-wheel brakes (the latter were dropped in 1911).
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The car had an advanced specification with torsion bar suspension and four-wheel brakes.
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Four-wheel braking from a common foot pedal was introduced, as was the use of hydraulically actuated brakes.
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Timken roller bearings, 16 insulated wheels and cast iron four-wheel brakes were standard, all adding up to a weight of 895lbs without a cab.
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The largest was a 7956cc four-cylinder which had four-wheel brakes by 1913.
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The conventional chassis with half elliptic leaf springs had four-wheel brakes.
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This had a 3.1-litre, six-cylinder engine, now with removable cylinder head, mated to a four-speed conventional gearbox and four-wheel brakes.
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Four-wheel brakes actuated by the pedal through a master-plunger operate on the front wheels and on (the back wheels through) the transmission just behind the gearbox.
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