Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/28

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Subject: [Leica] New Album - take a look
From: clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni)
Date: Wed Sep 28 15:50:00 2005
References: <433A7134.6010001@summaventures.com> <002001c5c441$6459eb20$6101a8c0@jimnichols>
 
On Sep 28, 2005, at 11:29 AM, <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Peter,
> Can you offer any explanation of the transmission in the Masserati 
> 8CM?  The selector shown in Photo 7 resembles one for an automatic 
> transmission.

Jim, I suspect that it's a "Wilson pre-selector" gearbox...a 
semi-automatic transmission.  I've read that the 'clutch' pedal was 
used conventionally to get the car moving, then from that point the 
pedal was more of an actuator...the driver put the selector to the gear 
he expected to use next, but that gear would not actually be selected 
until he pushed the 'clutch' pedal...

Active update - appears I'm (egads!) correct:
http://www.maserati-alfieri.co.uk/alfieri90a.htm - 6th paragraph down 
indicates as much.

CZ
Useless Trivia, NC
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