Audels answers on automobiles, for owners, operators, repairmen ... including chapters on the storage battery, electric vehicles, motor cycles, overhauling the car, etc. Fully illustrated and indexed (1911)
Booth, Charles Edwin, b. 1849 · London, New York, T. Audel & co · leaf 305
. How does this apply to the transmission, in adapting theengine to a variable load ? Ans. The office of a transmission is to keep the firstfactor—force—within allowable limits, by permitting thesecond factor—distance—to vary in proper proportion. Ques. How are these factors represented in the… … Fig. 167.—Conventional diagram illustrating transmission principles asapplied to the automobile. A belt connects two cone pulleys one on the engineshaft and one on the rear axle. By shifting the belt to the right or left, thespeed of the engine is respectively diminished or increased in relation to…
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