this specification discloses a resilient wheel suspension wherein a wheel is rotationally mounted upon an axle and the axle is resiliently suspended with respect to a mounting plate . the resilient suspension includes an elastomer disk which is coupled along one major surface to the axle and along the other major surface to the mounting plate . lateral movement of the axle causes a shear to be applied in the elastomer disk . the suspension can have nonlinear characteristics by having a plurality of elastomer disks and metal disks with central openings for passing the axle and successively coupled to adjacent disks between a coupling to the axle and a coupling to the mounting plate . the size of the opening diameter increases in successive disks going from the disk adjacent to the axle to the disk adjacent to the mounting plate .