SLIDING GEARSET.
A PERMANENT UNIT. Many years ago one of the greatest automobile, engineers remarked that “the sliding gcarset is barbarous engineering. It can’t last long. Before five years are gone we shall have something infinitely better. ” Nearly four times five years have passed since then and the sliding goajset is still standard equipment on all cars except one, the Ford, which uses the planetary transmission, which is certainly no better engineering ' than the selective type. While other’and more necessary developments demanded attention, tho gear box has had to wait. It always happens that, real need finds its answer in the brains of inventors and developers. We have had the self starter, electric lighting .and a dozen other improvements which have made the modern motor car what it is to-day, and still the old-time gear-box retains its place in the mechanical unity of the car.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 7
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