Motive Power Definition

Motive Power Sentence Examples

• The different kinds of motive power used to actuate cranes - manual, steam, hydraulic, electric - give a further classification.

• Steam is an extremely useful motive power for all cranes that are not worked off a central power station.

• Electricity as a motive power for cranes is of more recent introduction.

• For overhead travellers in workshops, and for most of the cranes which fall into our second class, electricity as a motive power has already displaced nearly every other method.

• It is now possible to apply motive power exactly where it is wanted, and to do so economically, so that the crane designer has a perfectly free hand in adding the various motions required by the special circumstances of each case.