If drum brakes and flat-tappet camshafts are old-school technology, then springs are quite literally ancient. In some respects the wooden bows and catapults used by medieval knights to bludgeon their ...
Up until the mid-'70s, most cars came from the factory with a solid rear axle suspended by two semielliptic, parallel leaf springs. A leaf spring is made | up of one or more long, narrow strips of ...
BrightDrop electric delivery vans (above) as well as Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra pickups from General Motors Co. feature North America’s first composite tension leaf springs (TLS) with progressive ...