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1. Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: DOUG ODOM <popms@thegrid.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:57:21 -0800
OK group, My brother-in-law is here for thanksgiving and asked me when the first automatic transmission was in production and what car? I don't know but I told him I was sure someone on this list wou
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00676.html (7,795 bytes)

2. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:58:45 -0600
My Money is on Chyrsler.... ( and no I don't care how they spell it ) K /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net /// wit
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00677.html (8,244 bytes)

3. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: Bill Smith <WmTSmith@landracing.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:13:21 GMT
I am pretty sure the first one in a production car was GM with the old My Money is on Chyrsler.... ( and no I don't care how they spell it ) K -- /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00678.html (9,027 bytes)

4. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:17:19 EST
Cadillac in 1941! You could also get factory air conditioning, power tops and electric division windows. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Bob in connecticut /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00679.html (7,998 bytes)

5. auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: "Paul Bland" <paul.blandavon@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:37:57 -0000
As far as I know the first car with an "Auto trans" was the 1916/17 "Owen Magnetic" built by the Baker company. Paul. /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain te
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00680.html (8,151 bytes)

6. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: Glenn Ridlen <gridlen@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:54:32 -0800 (PST)
I think GM ( Chevy) had something in the mid to late 30s that you didn't have to step on the clutch. I think you just let up on the throttle and vaccuum did the rest. Bill Smith <WmTSmith@landracing.
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00681.html (9,927 bytes)

7. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: pork.pie@t-online.de (pork.pie)
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:37:14 +0100
Hi Doug, no problem. Sorry, the 1941 Cadillac was too late. The Baker 1916/17 got a preselect transmission, which was not a Automatic transmission. The first series production car worldwide, which wa
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00682.html (8,894 bytes)

8. Re: auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: wspotter <wester6935@home.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:53:48 -0800
There was a car built in 1904 that had a push button, semi-automatic transmission. It also had a "heart attack button" the driver held down that put on the brakes if released. Stan Wanlass said he di
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00684.html (8,844 bytes)

9. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:33:08 -0500 (EST)
Yes Bill, I agree, the GM four-speed Hydramatic appeared about '37 or '38 on Oldsmobile and Cadillac, solid as a rock, and was used on Cadillac Flathead V8 tank engines during WWII (very convenient,
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00685.html (8,803 bytes)

10. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:38:15 -0800
I think it was GM Kieth. Chrysler came out with a semi auto, the M-6. A 4 speed box (although very few owners knew that there were two speeds in low.) behind a fluid coupling. Getting second gear in
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00686.html (9,096 bytes)

11. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:42:05 EST
Hi Bill, I posted this question over one the AACA web site today. Someone said that GM tested stuff on Oldsmobile before it made to to Cadillac. That way if it wasn't perfert the Caddy name was uneff
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00687.html (8,438 bytes)

12. Auto Trans History (score: 1)
Author: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:54:53 -0800
Check: http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/gmhis1930.html "Hydra-matic, the industry's first completely automatic shift transmission, is introduced by Detroit Transmission Division (later Hyd
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00688.html (8,402 bytes)

13. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:41:41 -0600
When I worked for Henry Rose Garage-- right after my stint as an army mechanic in the '60s-- we had a "shop car"-- you know, the thing that you make parts runs in, etc.-- that had one of these trans
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00689.html (9,649 bytes)

14. Re: Auto Trans History (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 07:43:25 -0600
That's what I said..... Oldsmobile.... I just spelled it chrysler..... you folks and your dang Spelling lessons.... Bunch of yahoo's... /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscri
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00690.html (8,281 bytes)

15. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Bennett" <benettw@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:17:58 -0500
Now for a bit more history behind Oldsmobile and Cadillac. Back when I was a teenager dad restored a 1911 Brush made by a man by the name Augustus P. Brush. The car had a two speed semi automatic. Tw
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00693.html (9,138 bytes)

16. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 01:28:50 EST
Bill, The other thing that was odd about the Brush was the wooden front and rear axles. They were one cylinder water cooled cars with chain drive. Every Ford built 1903-27 had a planetary transmissio
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00694.html (8,722 bytes)

17. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: "Bill Bennett" <benettw@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:07:38 -0500
They had a wooden frame. The one cylinder engine had a counterbalance gear. The car could be worked on with out having to crawl underneath simply by removing the floorboards. There were 2 track width
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00696.html (9,686 bytes)

18. Re: Auto trans history (score: 1)
Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:46:07 -0500 (EST)
I always heard the same thing Bob, and I believe it's true. GM put the Hydramatic on the Olds for a year or two before they put it in the Cad. Bill /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list ///
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00702.html (7,706 bytes)

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