The complete motorist, being an account of the evolution and construction of the modern motor-car; with notes on the selection, use, and maintenance of the same; and on the pleasures of travel upon the public roads (1905)
Young, Filson, 1876-1938 · New York : McClure, Phillips & co.; London, Methuen & co. · leaf 93
rdinary chain-speed gear; and it does not wear as well asthe chain system of driving. As in so many other cases, it is to the Lanchester car thatwe have to look for the most successful attempt on a large carto avoid this somewhat barbarous mechanical device. In thiscase changes of speed are not… … SKETCH ILLUSTRATING CRYPTO GEAR separate trains of Crypto, or epicyclic gear, the principle ofwhich is that by holding or driving different elements of a gearwhich is always in mesh, different ratios of speed are produced.In two of the Lanchester trains of gearing the central elementis formed by…
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