GEARBOX MISUSE
Drivers of modem cars fitted with synchronised gearboxes should remember that these have been designed to make gear changing easy, and, this being so, there is not the' slightest excuse nor the necessity in any circumstances to slam the lever from one position to another. The synchronising mechanism employed naturally represents an addition to the normal number of moving parts in a gear box, and this additional mechanism, while sturdy enough to stand up to normal use and posesssing a sufficient margin of strength to allow for ordinary mistakes, has not been designed to allow “ racing changes ” to be made with complete impunity, a point which youthful drivers of these cars in particular, whose imagination has been fired by tales of the driving methods of European road-racing stars, would do well to bear in mind.
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Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 13
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137GEARBOX MISUSE Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 13
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