The above-ground version is not flush with the driveway or garage pad and does not require excavation. The two versions are analogous to an above-ground and an in-ground swimming pool.
Two primary types of vehicle turntables are available: the above-ground version and the in-ground version. Possibly due to the dense urban planning in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Australia (among others) an earnest adoption of turntables began in the 1950s.Įscalating urban density in the United States, and increased awareness of back-over and reversing accidents primarily involving children has helped in popularity of vehicle turntables. As seen in the August 1938 Modern Mechanics issue, which displays a turntable used in Paris’ narrow streets “so that cars and autos don’t have to go miles out of their way to find turning places”. Westcott, designer of the Westcott automobile and founder of the Westcott Motor Car Company.Ĭar turntables were first prevalent in Europe. Doheny, a Los Angeles oil tycoon and the Westcott House built in 1908 in Springfield, Ohio, for Burton J. The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed and implemented several residential vehicle turntables including the 1922 Doheny Ranch Estate in Beverly Hills, California, designed but never built for Edward L. Henry Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan Fair Lane Estate garage (Estate construction began in 1914 and was completed in 1916) included an automobile turntable. Henry Ford greatly expanded his production line manufacture with affordable automobiles beginning in 1913, most notably with his Ford Model T. Oldsmobile was the first mass production automobile built on assembly lines in 1902. The car turntable has existed nearly as long as the mass-produced automotive. The turntable allowed train engines, which could not safety be run in reverse owing to their design, to be rotated to a forward position. The first turntable engine shed was the North Midland Railway roundhouse, built in 1839 at Derby, England. The residential car turntable traces its history to the steam locomotives turntable engine shed, or roundhouse. Sometimes a local zoning prohibition of vehicles backing onto busy roadways prompts the installation of car turntables. They rotate a motor vehicle to facilitate its easier or safer egress. A car turntable or driveway turntable is a rotating platform designed for use by a car they can be motorized or manually rotated and are usually installed in a driveway or in a garage floor.
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