Hershey 2010: Bouncey bouncey bouncey

Anywhere you look at Hershey any year you go, you’re bound to see Model T springs in every configuration possible. Model T spring wheels, however, are rather unusual, especially a set of four such as these we spotted somewhere near the border of the Chocolate and Red fields. If you go back through the patent […]

Resilience

For the current issue of Hemmings Motor News, I wrote up a little introduction to the resilient wheel, a self-sprung technology that enjoyed not very much popularity in the decades before World War II.  But for an idea that essentially no one used, quite a few people wrote in to comment.
I’d never actually seen a […]