Word: gears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britons liked blatant slogans (which Britons do not) they might have opened London's annual motor show last week with: "The Gear Shift Lever Must Go!" Ten of the 26 British exhibitors showed cars not equipped with gear shift levers but having at the centre of the steering wheel a minute gadget called a "pre-selector...
Driving such a car in "high."he British motorist will set his preselector for "second" or "first," knowing that sooner or later a hill or traffic pause must come. When it does he merely throws out his clutch and is shifted by a mechanical thingumbob into the gear which he has "pre-selected...
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...
True it is that able Major Woolson, in 1928, designed Gar Wood's four Packard motors. But it was Mr. Wood who developed them. By supercharging he stepped them up to 1.600 h.p. from 770 h.p. And he designed the gear boxes by which he can hook up two motors to each propeller...
...have clung to radial engines of a few-hundred horsepower which, while they offer much more head resistance, are generally preferred for commercial and military flying. Such engines can fly great distances. Some observers believe that with more powerful radial engines, the advantage of retractable landing gear will enable landplanes to fly faster than seaplanes, which cannot retract their floats. But there must be landing fields a mile-and-a-half or two miles long, since a plane which flies 400 m.p.h. lands at about no m.p.h...