Word: clutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CLUTCH AND DIFFERENTIAL - George Weller-Random House...
...week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular: "Bodies never cease changing . . . but power...
...tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance in the air. By a simple clutch, he can apply power either to the single wheel at the rear or to the propeller...
...jump take-off"-a method by which the giro for the first time can actually rise straight into the air. This is done by briefly gearing the rotor blades to the engine and whirling them at top speed while their angle of incidence is zero. When the clutch is disengaged and the blades are suddenly given a sharp angle of incidence, the giro jumps some 15 feet straight off the ground. Then the propeller drags the giro forward...
...settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece, including the conversion gear. So far Arrow has sold some half-dozen planes at $1,500 apiece. As soon...