underframe

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ frame.

Pronunciation

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Noun

underframe (plural underframes)

1. The supporting structure of a piece of furniture, a vehicle, etc.
   • 1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 781:

     The main fuel tank is slung from the underframe midway between the two bogies, and its capacity of 420 gal. supplies both the main engine and the train heating boiler.

   • 1958 June, “First Battery Railcars on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:

     Each half-section of the battery weighs about eight tons, and the two underframes had to be strengthened to take this weight.

   • 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: S.R. multiple-unit news”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:

     Nos. 5300/1, which were finished in January, are the Southern's first "4-EPB" units to the standard B.R. design on 63 ft. 5 in. underframes, as against the S.R. 62 ft.; [...].

   • 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 265:

     The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.

Translations

supporting structure

Danish: understel (da) n Norwegian: Bokmål: understell n Nynorsk: understell n