INDEPENDENCE

摘要

The necessity to fit any suspensions at all to vehicles appeared at a time when they were still horse-pulled - and this was not necessarily for comfort reasons. At the time, such carts had beam axles, in other words rigid axles. With the advent of mechanical propulsion, and in spite of ever increasing speeds, it took almost half a century for automobiles to start - and only start - adopting independently suspended wheels. Why and for what advantages will be explained here.