Ford Motor Company Limited

Harry Pietsch

Axel Rauthmann

There is described a spare wheel arrangement for a motor car, in which the spare wheel and the fuel tank are disposed adjacent one another below the rear loading area in a partly overlapping manner and in which the spare wheel is disposed in a depression in the floor and the fuel tank is disposed below the floor by means of support straps, the spare wheel having a tendency to rise at its forward end from the depression in the case of a rear-end collision. The front end of the depression 6 is covered by a capture plate 12 which, in the case of a rear end collision at relatively low speeds, acts in conjunction with the rim 10 of the spare wheel 7 to brace the floor against excessive deformation which would endanger the fuel tank.

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Pulheim, Germany

Harry Pietsch