Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
on the offside in mid-wheelbase
English answer:
driver side, middle of front section
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Carmen Cuervo-Arango
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on the offside in mid-wheelbase
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Volvo has launched a very ingenious vehicle. It is a bi-articulated city bus, based on the new B9SALF chassis with its engine mounted on the offside in mid-wheelbase in the front section
Could you please say in Ebglish with different words where the engine is mounted on this bus? Thanks in advance!
Could you please say in Ebglish with different words where the engine is mounted on this bus? Thanks in advance!
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driver side, middle of front section
On the same side as the driver, between the front and rear wheels of the front section (i.e. not right at the front).
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on the Driver's side in the middle of the vehicle
A Cummins ISL engine is mounted in the offside rear corner driving through a Voith D864 fully automatic gearbox to a ZF AV132 portal axle. The front axle is a substantial low beam design by Van Hool, with MAN hubs and Meritor disc brakes all round...Van Hool preferred to locate the engine ertically on the offside of the front portion of the vehicle, in mid wheelbase driving into the second axle.
www.busride.com/2005/06/Letters_from_Europe.asp
picture of the layout
http://www.vanhool.com/products_bus_detail.asp?TabID=1&ID=18...
www.busride.com/2005/06/Letters_from_Europe.asp
picture of the layout
http://www.vanhool.com/products_bus_detail.asp?TabID=1&ID=18...
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offside = the side away from the kerb i.e. towards the middle of the road
as opposed to neraside, which is the side next to the kerb or pavement.
The wheelbase is the distance between the front paris of wheels and the rear pair of wheels (sometimes these pairs are double)
the front section is the leading or front half of the articulated bus - an articulated bus by definition having two parts.
This means to be specific that the engine is in the front half of the two-part articulated bus and that it is located on the side near the middle of the road and halfway between the front pair of wheels and the rear pair of wheels
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Note added at 2005-06-22 07:24:34 (GMT)
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nearside - oops typo
pairs - another typo...
The wheelbase is the distance between the front paris of wheels and the rear pair of wheels (sometimes these pairs are double)
the front section is the leading or front half of the articulated bus - an articulated bus by definition having two parts.
This means to be specific that the engine is in the front half of the two-part articulated bus and that it is located on the side near the middle of the road and halfway between the front pair of wheels and the rear pair of wheels
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Note added at 2005-06-22 07:24:34 (GMT)
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nearside - oops typo
pairs - another typo...
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Charlie Bavington
: Actually, I suppose this is even more accurate, if we allow for the possibility that the driving position may *not* necessarily itself be offside (e.g. central, or some other strange set-up)
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you have to disconnect the engine position from the driving position in your mind - the two are not necessarily together - some of the protoypes I've seen....
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Vicky Papaprodromou
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Balasubramaniam L.
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Balasubramaniam L.
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right at the front end, but opposite to the side from where the passengers board the bus
Right in the front end of the front section along the middle wheel base, but opposite to the side from where the passengers board the bus, that is, the right side.
I have arrived at this interpretation by going strictly by the dictionary meaning of "off" (Concise Oxford Dictionary):
8. a. farther, far, (on the off side of the wall); (of part of animal or vehicle, or road, or horse etc. in team) right [opp. NEAR, orig. w. ref. to side from which one mounted] (the off front wheel, hind leg, side);
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Note added at 49 mins (2005-06-22 06:35:17 GMT)
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The \"right side\" of course refers to the position of the engine.
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Note added at 4 hrs 3 mins (2005-06-22 09:50:08 GMT)
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After looking at the pictures posted by airmailrpl, I will modify my answer as follows:
opposite to the side from where the passengers board the bus and between the middle and front set of wheels
I have arrived at this interpretation by going strictly by the dictionary meaning of "off" (Concise Oxford Dictionary):
8. a. farther, far, (on the off side of the wall); (of part of animal or vehicle, or road, or horse etc. in team) right [opp. NEAR, orig. w. ref. to side from which one mounted] (the off front wheel, hind leg, side);
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Note added at 49 mins (2005-06-22 06:35:17 GMT)
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The \"right side\" of course refers to the position of the engine.
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Note added at 4 hrs 3 mins (2005-06-22 09:50:08 GMT)
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After looking at the pictures posted by airmailrpl, I will modify my answer as follows:
opposite to the side from where the passengers board the bus and between the middle and front set of wheels
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Charlie Bavington
: you're right in a way, because offside = driver's side, which is *likely* to be opposite side from where passengers board (as against nearside, which = the pavement side), but I don't agree this is *necessarily* = right side; depends on the country ?
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There is another problem with the answer too, which I realized after seeing the pictures of the bus posted by airmailrpl. The middle wheel cannot be at the front end of the front section. It is at the rear end of the front section.
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