His wife, Ruby Siegal, cryptically added, "short axles in the back."
Each skid carried a pair of wheel on a short axle .
The wheels of a scooter are fastened to the end of a short axle, rather than being mounted between a "fork" in the frame.
It had a fixed undercarriage with two wheels on a short axle under the fuselage and an integral nose skid.
Beyond the translation machine was a spherical mass with six projecting short axles, a disk-shaped wheel on the end of each.
The wide-track undercarriage consisted of a pair of long laminated wood skids each bearing pair of wheels on a short axle.
The undercarriage had two forward-projecting skids, each mounted with a pair of wheels on a short axle.
The fixed undercarriage consisted of a pair of wheels on a short axle carried inside the fuselage, the lower part of the wheels projecting through slots.
The trailer's platform measures 8.9m by 3.15m, the weight is distributed on 24 wheels, two per short axle, six of those axles per side (the front two are steerable).
The Brikken had a Farman style fixed undercarriage, with two wheels on each side on short axles attached at right angles to skids, upturned at the front.