Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British racing driver, ordered his mechanics to give the fishtailed, monster-snouted Bluebird a shove. Slipping into first gear he pointed her up Daytona Beach toward the judges' stand. A white mist hung over the course and the sand was wet. When he was going 80 m.p.h. he shifted the Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned...
...planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered by single 575-h. p. Wright Cyclones, will be equipped with retractable landing gear...
Improvements in gears?synchromesh transmission, four speed internal gear transmission, quiet second gear...
Plate clutch, making gear shifting and repairs easier...
...only about 25 lb. per h. p. This car was personally developed by Col. Howard Marmon, vice president of the company. He has worked at it since 1926, when straight-eights were gaining popularity. Also offered are two new straight-eights called "88," and "70." A clutch brake makes gear shifting easy. Prices: the 16 below $5,000; the "88," around $2,000; the ''70'' around...