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Hobbs Transmission

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of Leamington Spa.

1936 Private company.

By 1958 was part of BSA; it was developing an automatic transmission system[1]

1961 Precision engineers and transmission gear specialists. [2]

c.1962 Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co built a fully automated factory in Manchester to manufacture the "Mecha-Matic" automatic transmission, designed by Hobbs Transmission Ltd of Leamington Spa[3]

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Automatic transmissions. [4]

See also Westinghouse Hobbs.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Nov. 20, 1958
  2. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ 1963 Motor Show
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