Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,561 pages of information and 246,142 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Automobile Engineer: 1961/01

From Graces Guide
January 1961. Front cover.
January 1961. Index to contents.

Note: This is a sub-section of the Automobile Engineer

CONTENTS

  • 1. Editorial - Auxiliary Braking systems
  • 2. Hydra-Matic 61-05 Transmission Part II: The control system and the hydraulic action during operation of the unit
  • 9. Casting Aluminium Bronze - Some notes on general principles and practical aspects - G. Fitzgerald-Lee
  • 12. The Analogue Computer - Elementary fundamental principles and applications to engineering design, production and testing - K. E. Brock
  • 17. Precision Sizing of Holes - Method that does not require skilled labour and is readily applicable to modern automatic production techniques - Industrial Tectonics Inc, Ann Arbor
  • 22. Piezoelectric Ignition System - Self-contained, mechanically actuated unit of compact dimensions and light weight - Brush Crystal Co
  • 24. Novel Coach Heating System - Interesting layout developed by Clayton Dewandre, in which only one heat exchanger and fan unit is employed
  • 26. Building Replacement Engines - A separate, specially equipped plant to operate, on a line-production basis, the Perkins Perpetuity Plan, now turns out more than 10,000 reconditioned diesel units per annum
  • 36. Controlled Finishing by Vibration - New process reduces cycle time in the mass treatment of small parts - Carl Kurt Walther, Germany
  • 37. Liechti Chucking Automatic - A Swiss-built machine with pneumo-hydraulic operation controlled by a steel programme band - Liechti and Co.
  • 39. Coating Thickness Gauge - A small, portable, self- contained instrument for checking the thickness of paint or sprayed-metal coatings on ferrous base material - ICI and Solus-Schall
  • 40. Current Patents - A review of recent automobile specifications

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