Gearbox Misuse
QRIYERS of modern cars fitted with synchronised gearboxes should remember that these have been designed to make gear changing easy, and this being so, there is not the slightest excuse nor the necessity in any circumstances to slam the lever from one position lo another.
The synchronising mechanism employed naturally represents an addition lo the normal number of moving parts in a gear box, and this additional mechanism, while sturdy enough to stand up to normal use and possessing a sufficient margin of strength to allow for ordinary mistakes has not. been designed lo allow "racing changes" to be made with complete impunity, a point which youthful ■drivers of these cars in particular, whose imagination has been fired by tales of the driving methods of European road-racing stars, would do well ii, bear in mind.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 9
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137Gearbox Misuse Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 9
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