To attain correct handling balance, they actually used swing-axle geometry at the front, with the steering pivots mounted at the outer ends of single swing wishbones.OverviewA swing axle is a simple type of designed and patented by in 1903 for the. The swing axle suspension has two advantages over the typical : • It reduced since the differential is mounted to the • It eliminates sympathetic changes on opposite w. in his 1965 book detailed accidents and lawsuits related to the shortcomings in 1960–1963 models of the first generation 's swing-axle design. Nader identified a.