Automobile driving self-taught; an exhaustive treatise on the operation, management and care of motor cars (1912)
Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947 · Chicago, Charles C. Thompson co. · leaf 27
d be movingapproximately at the same speed when they are brought to-gether. In other words, the speed of shaft X has to be re-duced. (See Fig. 3.) To accompHsh this, the clutch must be sharply and whollywithdrawn just as A and At are taken out of mesh, and thegear lever moved gently into the second… … FIG. 3.—POSITION ON SECOND SPEED. that the teeth of the two wheels are traveling at the samespeed. There are other factors, however, which complicate themovement, and render great judgment and experience neces-sary to effect an absolutely clean change. For example, ifthe car is rimning on the level…
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