Steering wheels are used in most modern
land vehicles, including all mass-production automobiles, as well as buses,
light and heavy trucks, and tractors. The chinasteering wheel is the part of the steering system that is manipulated by
the driver; the rest of the steering system responds to such driver inputs.
This can be through direct mechanical contact as in recirculating ball or rack
and pinion steering gears, without or with the assistance of hydraulic power
steering, HPS, or as in some modern production cars with the assistance of
computer-controlled motors, known as Electric Power Steering.
The first automobiles were steered with a
tiller, but in 1894, Alfred Vacheron took part in the Paris–Rouen race with a
Panhard 4 hp model which he had fitted with a steering wheel. That is believed
to be one of the earliest employments of the principle.
From 1898, the Panhard et Levassor cars
were equipped as standard with china steering wheel.
Charles Rolls introduced the first car in Britain
fitted with a steering wheel when he imported a 6 hp Panhard from France in 1898.
Arthur Constantin Krebs replaced the tiller with an inclined steering wheel for
the Panhard car he designed for the 1898 Paris–Amsterdam–Paris race which ran
7–13 July 1898.
In 1898, Thomas B. Jeffery and his son,
Charles T. Jeffery, developed two advanced experimental cars featuring a
front-mounted engine, as well as a steering wheel that was mounted on the
left-hand side. However, the early automaker adopted a more “conventional”
rear-engine and tiller-steering layout for its first mass-produced Ramblers in
1902.The following year, the Rambler Model E was largely unchanged, except that
it came equipped with a tiller early in the year, but with a china steering wheel by the end of 1903. By 1904, all
Ramblers featured steering wheels. Within a decade, the steering wheel had
entirely replaced the tiller in automobiles.
At the insistence of Thomas B. Jeffery, the
position of the driver was also moved to the left-hand side of the car during
the 1903 Rambler production.[8] Most other car makers began offering cars with
left-hand drive in 1910. Soon after, most cars in the U.S. converted to left hand drive. Gasgoo.com has prepared the top
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