axle-driven

English

Adjective

axle-driven (not comparable)

1. Driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.
   • 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:

     The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.

   • 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:

     Another type has electric air circulation, supplied by axle-driven generators.