Altair - A different perspective

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Aug 18 23:15:16 1998

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

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> Yep... I have the official manuals for the cars my father has owned since
> I started seriously working on them, manuals for vehicles I'd like to own
> one day (Land Rovers, older Citroens, etc), and manuals for vehicles that
> have unusual designs (Manumatic transmission, Wilson Preselector
> transmission, etc). Nowhere near as many manuals as my computer
> documentation, but still a fairly large shelf.

The Wilson Preselector, as I recall it, qualifies as a direct ancestor of
the current genre of transmissions used in the present Formula 1
machines. Obviously there are differences in operation, but they were a
generation or so ahead of everyone else. I recall them from the early
sixties, and they were not new then!
                                                 - don
> -tony
>
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Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 23:15:16 BST