Word: gearshift
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British Industries Fair, which opened last week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...
Meanwhile, Ed Barit prodded his engineers to recapture the art which had given Hudson the industry's longest list of "firsts" (e.g., first aluminum pistons, first rear luggage compartment, first steering-wheel gearshift). Last fall they were finally ready with something that Barit felt to be a real advance. The new Hudson was so low that passengers step over the frame and down into it from the curb, yet it still has more headroom and width than any other car now being mass-produced. It also has a lower center of gravity. Barit was so convinced...
...Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...
...pretty nearly did. He made soybean gearshift nobs, horn buttons, accelerator pedals-and even experimental bodies. But if soybean plastics were strong, they were also expensive; cheaper plastics were just as good or better. So last week young Henry Ford II pruned out the last of the soybean projects. Having converted two soybean-processing divisions to other work, Ford's sold a third plant, at Saline, Mich., to Soybrands, Inc. The selling price was secret, but it was no secret that the soybean era at Ford's had ended...
Special features of the snappy roadster are leather upholstery, a tremendous thirst for water, and a gearshift mechanism that just right out of the dash board and whose design is exactly the opposite of the ordinary...