Patent ID: 7410396

Claim:
An amphibious vehicle, comprising: a prime mover; land propulsion means; marine propulsion means; transmission means for transmitting power generated by the prime mover to the land and/or marine propulsion means; and retractable suspension means capable of retracting and protracting the land propulsion means, wherein: the suspension means and the transmission means are directly interlinked such that retraction of said land propulsion means by said suspension means actuates the transmission means to decouple the prime mover from the land propulsion means and protraction of said land propulsion means by said suspension means actuates the transmission means to couple the prime mover with the land propulsion means, wherein the transmission means is mechanically connected to the retractable suspension means and the automatic coupling and decoupling of the land propulsion means is effected by physical movement of the retractable suspension means and wherein the mechanical connection between the transmission means and the retractable suspension means is a push-pull cable.