Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hudson's specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift...
Terraplanef Hudson's fast-selling lowest-priced line, also has an "electric hand" available on all models. Elimination of the gear lever makes all sedan models comfortable for six passengers...
...Step on the gas!" was Sergeant Honda's only thought in his panic. The Imperial motorcade got so far ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...
...inhabitanis of Lowell House were pleasantly surprised when five of Cambridge's most modern fire engines congregated in front of the Owl Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...
...three men reached the semi-finals of the Intercollegiate Boxing Championship last year. Among the promising Sophomores are Peter B. Olney, captain of last year's Freshman team, Edgar S. Davis, winner of the University Championship last year, James P. Kostarolos, Frederick B. Taylor, Jr. and Garrow T. Gear, Jr., all undefeated last year...