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  • You're supposed to run the whole way and the parents wheeling gigantic six-wheel buggies along pavements that were already narrow and further constricted by fencing, sound equipment, walls of bottled water for the runners, and approximately a zillion signs advertising Virgin, which was sponsoring the run and is, no doubt, "Sir" Richard Branson's solution to overcrowding on his trains: make us all run to Manchester.

    Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping ahead of the rhinos 2011

  • With swept-back wings of solar panels, a gold-plated instrument box and clusters of cameras, the six-wheel Spirit rover resembles a mechanical moth with a gilded thorax.

    For Mars Rover, Really Remote Roadside Assistance 2009

  • At his home garage, he keeps three six-wheel Mercedes-Benzes that Adolf Hitler used for his personal entourage, next to four cute unrestored Studebakers and an Auburn supercharged boattail roadster, as well as his kids 'cars.

    Dean Kruse: Just a log cabin 2008

  • The betting is, however, that it is more likely to be the four-wheel version of the Cougar pictured – the six-wheel version forming the basis for the Mastiff – in order to ensure commonality and to simplify maintenance.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007

  • The descent into Victoria Crater received the go-ahead because the potential scientific returns are worth the risk that the solar-powered, six-wheel rover might not be able to climb out, NASA officials and scientists said Thursday.

    Risky Trip into Crater | Impact Lab 2007

  • Great big enormous six-wheel trucks over on their side, buses pushed way out into the middle of a field.

    CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2004 2004

  • "We're looking at other lower bodies for the moon, with a four-wheel or six-wheel base," Ambrose said.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • "We're looking at other lower bodies for the moon, with a four-wheel or six-wheel base," Ambrose said.

    NASA robot rides a Segway 2004

  • The passenger engines for the fast traffic are of two types, the six-wheel engines with 7 ft. coupled wheels, and the new bogie engines which are being built to replace them.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

  • At present seventy-two locomotives are running with petroleum firing; ten of them are passenger engines, seventeen are eight-wheel coupled goods engines, and forty-five are six-wheel coupled.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

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