>Jason Powell wrote:
>> Anyone know with certainty who designed it first? What vehicle had it
>> first?
My father's 1973 International Travel-All had a mechanical (Borg-Warner I
think, though it could have been Bosch) ABS system. It even had a little
"Anti-lock brake" light on the dash that lit up when the system was in
operation. From what I remember it wasn't nearly as smooth as today's
computerized system, I recall the thunk-thunk of the system in action when
my father had to really lay on the brakes.
I think that there were a few other cars, mostly European, of the early
'70s with this same system but from what I recall International Harvester
was the first to use it in an American vehicle.
- Alan Dahl
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