07-05-2021, 09:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2021, 09:14 PM by Bob Culver.)
Thanks Colin and Archivist
I could have gone to bed half an hour earlier!
Relative silence came from helical gears. It was considered impractical to slide these in and out of mesh although the likes of Ford Zephyr later did.
In the b and w drawing the constantly meshed layshaft and sleeve gears are proportioned more as typical helical gears.
I could have gone to bed half an hour earlier!
Relative silence came from helical gears. It was considered impractical to slide these in and out of mesh although the likes of Ford Zephyr later did.
In the b and w drawing the constantly meshed layshaft and sleeve gears are proportioned more as typical helical gears.