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Motor Wheel Lofts

Motor Wheel Lofts is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Motor Wheel Lofts rather than just read about it. In short: Motor Wheel Lofts (formerly the Prudden Wheel Company Building or the Motor Wheel Corporation Building) is an apartment building converted from a former industrial building. It was listed it on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Key takeaways

Motor Wheel Lofts belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Motor Wheel Lofts to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Motor Wheel Lofts from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Motor Wheel Lofts (formerly the Prudden Wheel Company Building or the Motor Wheel Corporation Building) is an apartment building converted from a former industrial building. It was listed it on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

History William K. Prudden was born in 1859, attended Michigan State Agricultural College, and lived for several years in Indianapolis and Chicago. He worked as a real estate broker, and was also part owner of the Lansing Wheel Company, which provided wheels for carriages and wagons. The company was a great success, and in 1903 Prudden launched his own enterprise, W. K. Prudden & Company, to manufacture wheels. The company became a major supplier to the fledgling automobile industry, particularly Olds Motor Works. The original factory was located on Michigan Avenue, but in 1905 Prudden acquired this site along East Saginaw Street. By 1913, the company had constructed at least 18 buildings on the site, using both sides of May Street. In 1916, Prudden built the current structure for use as office and assembly space. The company continued to expand, and in 1916 reorganized as the Prudden Wheel Company. In 1920, Prudden merged with local companies Auto Wheel and Gier Pressed Steel, and the Memphis, Tennessee form of Weis & Lesh Manufacturing to form the Motor Wheel Corporation. The headquarters of the company remained at this plant. Motor Wheel moved into making steel wheels in the 1920s and brake drums in the 1930s. In 1961, Motor Wheel moved its headquarters to another facility, and demolished many of the buildings on the old site. Motor Wheel became a subsidiary of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1964, but left Lansing entirely in 1996. Meanwhile, the former headquarters building remained vacant until it was purchased by an investor in 1996. The building was converted into the Motor Wheel Lofts by developer Harry H Hepler in 2007.

Description The Prudden Wheel building is a three-story L-shaped structure of reinforced concrete with brick curtain walls. The southern leg, containing the main facade, measures approximately 382 feet long and 79 feet wide. The rear leg measures approximately 311 feet long and 101 feet wide. The main facade on the south side is 18 bays wide, with each bay containing window openings 18 feet with and 9-1/2 feet tall, with concrete sills. A new entryway was constructed in 2006 during renovation. The rear leg is 15 bays wide, with similar window openings. On the far end is a distinctive smokestack, bearing the name "Prudden" vertically in contrasting brick.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Motor Wheel Lofts

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Motor Wheel Lofts claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Motor Wheel Lofts before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Motor Wheel Lofts ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Motor Wheel Lofts

In research: Motor Wheel Lofts appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Motor Wheel Lofts in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Motor Wheel Lofts is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1916, National Register of Historic Places in Ingham County, Michigan, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Motor Wheel Lofts outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Motor Wheel Lofts in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Motor Wheel Lofts means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Motor Wheel Lofts out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Motor Wheel Lofts in simple terms?

Why does Motor Wheel Lofts matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Motor Wheel Lofts?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Motor Wheel Lofts.