motive power
Noun
Meaning
the power or ability to move
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A small parabolic dish was added to the rear of the prop's casing to explain why these Daleks, unlike the ones in their first serial, were not dependent on static electricity drawn up from the floors of the Dalek city for their motive power.
Animals supplied all of the motive power on land, with sails providing the motive power on the sea.
Benefits A train composed of DMU cars scales well, as it allows extra passenger capacity to be added at the same time as motive power.
By mid-1971, Amtrak began purchasing some of the equipment it had leased, including 286 second-hand locomotives (of the EMD E and F types, 30 GG1 electric locomotives) and 1,290 passenger cars, and continued leasing even more motive power.
But he has not discovered that the electro-magnetic current, used as motive power, in any other method, and with any other combination, will do as well."
Fiat Ferroviaria 's history goes back to before World War II, when Fiat provided motive power used for both Diesel and electric locomotives and railcars (Littorine) not only in Italy, but other parts of Europe, and in South America.