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 28
slightly longer interval—a small fraction of a secondlonger, probably—to allow shaft X to slow down sufficientlyto permit of B meshing cleanly with Bi. Of course, if toolong an interval is allowed, the car will have slowed downso much before the change is effected that the engine will notbe able to… … FIG. 4.—POSITION ON THIRD SPEED. than before, and necessitating a less gradual change. Thedelay in moving the lever is in all cases, however, very slight.In fact, there need be no actual stop, but rather a gradualsteady push forward. If the movement is too slow, the speedof shaft X will drop too…
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