Vehicle adapted to be guided on tracks for the public local passenger traffic with pivotal rear axle and longitudinal guide members for such axle

A vehicle adapted to be selectively operated with or without guide rails or tracks, the vehicle including a steerable vehicle axle means having steerable wheels mounted thereon and at least one non-steerable vehicle axle means having non-steerable wheels mounted thereon, means for mounting the non-steerable vehicle axle means so as to be pivotable in its entirety about a centrally positioned vertically extending pivot axis, spring means for suspending a superstructure of the vehicle, and spring bracket means fixedly mounted to an axle body for the non-steerable vehicle axle means for mounting the spring means to the vehicle, characterized in that ring mount segment means are provided for mounting the spring means at outer ends of the spring bracket means so as to be horizontally movable, at least two supporting roller means each having an axis of rotation disposed approximately toward a pivot center of the non-steerable axle means are attached to an underside of the spring means, said supporting roller means being adapted to roll along a flat top surface of the ring mount segment means, at least one of a shape-mating lateral guide means and a safety means arranged on both sides of the supporting roller means adjacent a mounting means for the supporting roller means, the guide means are adapted to engage lateral edges of the ring mount segment means on a freely projecting underside of the ring mount segments, said safety means lying in a lateral groove means provided in a shoulder of the ring mount segment means formed at the mounting means for the supporting roller means.