FREE WHEELERS
The number of inventions and improvements connected with free-wheel devices for motors indicates that there continues to be much public interest in the movement in England. Undoubtedly at the hack of the matter is the effect which development of this nature will have on gear changing. Drivers who can get accustomed to every other act in controlling a car will admit in many cases that they dislike the gear change more than anything else. There seems to be something in gear changing which is instinctively mastered by some people, but is never learned by other people, try as they may. Hence the elimination or the simplification of the nearbox appeals strongly to many persons, and more especially new motorists. No doubt progress will go on until in effect., the engine, will automatically select the gear .ratio which will best j si!i| the:speecl;and load ;.conaitions imposed upon it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 16
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