Wheel chocks (or chocks) are wedges of sturdy material placed closely against a vehicle's wheels to prevent accidental movement. Chocks are placed for...

Look up Chock or chock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chock or Chocks may refer to: Wheel chock, tool to prevent accidental movement Chock (climbing)...

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20 m (66 ft). Wheel stops or car stops are used to stop small numbers of light vehicles at the end of level storage tracks or to chock individual railroad...

skate or wheel chock was manually (or, in rare cases, mechanically) placed on one or both of the rails so that the treadles or rims of the wheel or wheels...

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the wheel is to be removed, an automotive jack to raise the vehicle and some wheel chocks would be used as well. Wheels that have hubcaps or wheel covers...

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weight of the vehicle as well as what the vehicle is resting on. Wheel chock – Wheel chocks are used to stabilize vehicles resting on their wheels. They are...

on report of landing gear malfunction. Reports indicated a wheel chock was left in the wheel well the night before causing a failure to extend. The plane...

vehicle and wheel chocks should be used instead. A second advantage is that they remove the need to provide cable connections to the wheel brakes, on off-road...

Wheel stops may refer to: Wheel chocks, for aircraft or road vehicles Railway wheel stops This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

lorries onto the trains, and once they are in place and secured with wheel chocks, they are taken to the club car at the front of the train by minibus...

single-track railway lines, allowing a train to pass another Skate A wheel chock Slack action (US) Looseness in a train caused by mating clearances in...

SMRT did not apply the locomotive's parking brake. There was also no wheel chock placed to prevent movement along the gradient of the track. If SMRT had...

gesture to alert the deck crew that they were ready to go and that the wheel chocks could be removed. On modern US carriers, specific deck crew hold a thumb...

electrical systems; this system can replace or work in conjunction with wheel chocks. Dock light – a movable articulating light mounted inside the dock used...

security devices were introduced. An early invention were locking wheel clamps or chocks that owners could shackle onto one of the car's road wheels as a...

facing downhill but be unable to hold the vehicle stopped without using wheel chocks when facing up a steep hill. An improvement over stock parking brakes...

nosegear extension system had been damaged following a collision with a wheel chock. July 4, 1968 Flight 329, a Boeing 727, was hijacked by a federal prisoner...

lone pilot hand starting, high throttle settings, brakes not applied or wheel chocks not being used, all resulting in aircraft moving off without the pilot...

trying to push an oversize vehicle onto the ferry. Prior to the use of wheel chocks, several vehicles had fallen overboard. For two months in the summer...

to a flatcars using chains and turnbuckles. Other components included wheel chocks and ramps for loading and unloading the trailers from the flatcars. By...

position was needed at their front. There were no brakes fitted, although wheel chocks were always carried. Wheels were of cast iron, sometimes wooden artillery...

landing practice at nearby Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. The aircraft's wheel chocks and a few other items were recovered. Officially attributed to loss of...

over the ocean during night touch-and-go landing practice. A pair of wheel chocks bearing the aircraft's number were among the few items recovered; the...

the Susan Anne while he was asleep behind the wheel after crew members neglected to place wheel chocks behind the back wheels of Zuber's semi-truck. No...

frequently during the 1960s. On December 24, 1964, a Tu-22R jumped its wheel chocks during a ground run and hit three parked aircraft; all were written off...

demountable spade plates and demountable trail block for each trail end, wheel chocks and leaf springs above the axle. The Type 96 15 cm howitzer was regarded...