Price range of coaches and quality
The following two companies have multiple coaches with Tag-axles. • American has four (4) coaches from the $390 to the $840,000 • Newmar has five (5) coaches from $350 to the $850,000 Both of...
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We had a Monaco "semi-monocoque" body/chassis. The reason they called it that was that the "frame strength" was provided by a bridge type truss system in the walls of the body of the coach. While it didn't include all of the body, it did move the forces up into the lower 18" or so of the body.
Personally, if a motorhome has 3-4 slides, to say nothing of a full slide on one side, I do not believe that the monocoque either full or "semi" is as good as the rail coach. By the time you put all of those cutouts into a body, it is next to impossible to get the strength that we think of with monocoque.
Just my thoughts as a former strength of materials engineer. And I apologize because I dont' think I've spelled monocoque correctly.
Ed Headington
Personally, if a motorhome has 3-4 slides, to say nothing of a full slide on one side, I do not believe that the monocoque either full or "semi" is as good as the rail coach. By the time you put all of those cutouts into a body, it is next to impossible to get the strength that we think of with monocoque.
Just my thoughts as a former strength of materials engineer. And I apologize because I dont' think I've spelled monocoque correctly.
Ed Headington
