The front end is particularly unusual. At first glance it looks like a girder fork design with unusual, side-mounted springs hidden inside rubber gaiters, but the reality is even stranger than that.

Starting with the Beemer’s front end, we come across a snazzy girder fork setup built from scratch with the help of CAD renderings.

The BMC successfully shifted the steel girder on the southern side of the Gopal Krishna Gokhale bridge, a key east-west connector in Andheri on Wednesday night. The operation involved moving the ...

A fully adjustable fork in 1924! Notice too the front brake, undersized in our eyes, but pretty huge in the twenties. The girder fork dominated the industry until 1949 when telescopic forks took over.