Self-propelled vehicles; a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles (1906)
Homans, James E. (James Edward), b. 1865 · New York, T. Audel & Company · leaf 398
ding gears on the drive shaft,giving the lowest and intermediate speeds, and the third con-stantly in mesh with the single gear on the bevel shaft. The topspeed, as in the Decauville, Peerless, Riker and other moderntransmissions, is obtained by sliding the two-gear sleeve all theway back (to the… … 386 SHlF-PROPHlLED VBHICLBS. is obtained when the gears on the sliding sleeve are in the neutralposition (indicated by the dotted outlines in the cut), by oper-ating the short reverse lever, thus causing an idler pinion, hungon a bell crank, to be thrown into mesh with the forward (left)end gears…
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