The Danger of the Lost Axle Nat.
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IN an article which appeared in The Commercial Motor of February 28th on the subject of the risk of an axle nut of a vehicle loosening and being lost, we showed examples of various methods of securing nuts to their axle sleeves. At the time we were particularly interested in the securing of a threaded nut, but taking a broader view of the subject and looking upon it from the point of view of confining a wheel to its axle by any means, we give details of the method used in the Guy lorries, in which the use of a nut has been abandoned altogether and a split collar fitting into a groove
• employed instead.
The axle sleeve of a Guy chassis has a groove turned in it near the end, and into the groove fits a split • collar, forming a solid abutment which is capable of resisting any shock, no matter how severe or how often repeated. The split collar, as shown in our illustration, is held in place by a further collar, which fits c34 The method appeals to us as being a good example of engineering and much safer than the ordinary nut.