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Word: gearboxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically the new Wilson Pre-Selective Gearbox which triumphed at the London Show last week is only a great and suave improvement on Henry Ford's ancient "planetary transmission" of immortal Model T. Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pre-Selector | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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