Abstract: A drive system for an industrial vehicle which consists substantially of an electric motor, a two-step transmission and a drive wheel and can be pivotally mounted for movement about a vertical axis in the undercarriage of the industrial vehicle. An axis of the electric motor is arranged parallel with respect to the drive wheel. The transmission can be a two-step spur gearing or a combined toothed belt and spur gearing. A swivel bearing is arranged above the drive wheel, the external race of which swivel bearing is received in the gear housing and the internal race of which swivel bearing is mounted onto a swivel pin extending downwardly from the undercarriage, the axis of said swivel pin lying at least approximately in the center rotational plane of the drive wheel, with the electric motor projecting above the area of the undercarriage having the swivel pin.

Abstract: An angle gear drive arrangement for a steerable propeller on a watercraft or other type of vehicle in which a driven shaft is supported in a gear housing and is driven by a pair of bevel gears. The driven bevel gear of the pair of bevel gears is mounted on a hollow shaft which is supported independently from a driven shaft. The hollow shaft encircles and is coupled to the driven shaft. The hollow shaft is supported at one end by a combined radial-axial bearing arrangement wherein one of the bearing members absorbs both radial and axial forces while the other bearing absorbs only axial forces.