18 Aug
1998
18 Aug
'98
11:15 p.m.
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