driving-wheel

driving-wheel (plural driving-wheels)

1. Dated form of driving wheel.
   • 1822 September 16, “Steam Carriages”, in Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, […], volume XXIII, number 1197, Portsmouth, Hampshire: […] G. H. Motley and W. Harrison, →OCLC, page [2], column 4:

     Under his inspection a carriage has been completed at the Pimlico manufactory; it is twenty-seven feet in length, including seven feet for the fire, boiler, cylinders, and the mechanism connected with the driving-wheels.

   • 1822 October 19, “New Patents, &c. To Julius Griffith, Esq. Brompton Crescent, for Carriages to Be Propelled by Steam on Common Roads, […]”, in The Charleston Mercury, […], volume I, number 248, Charleston, S.C.: […] Edmund Morford, […], →OCLC, front page, column 3:

     To the lower ends of the latter are attached the cranks, which cranks are again connected by means of a novel modification of an universal joint to the driving-wheels, firmly fixed to the interior part of the carriage-common-wheels, and these last are thus propelled as required.

   • 1860 January 23, “Accident on the New-Haven Railroad”, in The New York Times‎^[1], volume IX, number 2602, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 September 2025, page 4, column 6:

     The engine of the train which left this City for New-Haven on Saturday afternoon broke its driving-wheel just after passing Milford, and while going at a speed of thirty miles an hour.

   • 1876 February, Charles Francis Adams Jr., “The Railroad Death-Rate”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 August 2022:

     The glare of the head-light, the rush and throb of the locomotive, the connecting rod and driving-wheels of which seem instinct with nervous life, the flashing lamps in the cars, and the final whirl of dust in which the red taillights vanish almost as soon as they are seen, — all this is well calculated to excite our wonder; […]

   • 1911, Matthew H. Jamison, “Off for Oregon. Frontier Life in the Early Forties.”, in Recollections of Pioneer and Army Life, Kansas City, Mo.: Hudson Press, →OCLC, page 38:

     Whatever it may have been, it was subsidiary to the old gray mare and the big undulatory driving-wheel of the turning-lathe at the furniture factory, which would be under full swing the next morning at the Yellow Banks.

   • 1999 October 19, John Pike, “Time Traveller: John Pike looks at 1000 years of Torbay’s history: Riot in the streets”, in Herald Express, Torquay, Devon, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 5:

     THIS photograph of the station and staff at Torre Station in 1865 shows much evidence of Mr [Isambard Kingdom] Brunel's 'broad gauge'. The rails are seven feet apart; the engine has a huge single driving-wheel, taller than most of the men present and the signals, hand-operated, are of the 'circle and crossbar' type.