On Sun, 25 Dec 1994, Chip Old wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 1994, Lewis Dunbar Dove wrote:
>
> > Anyway, by the late 30's and 40's electrics were coming into their
> > own in the US, with two and three speed motors fairly common.
>
> Maybe, but vacuum-operated wipers persisted into the early 1950's, at
> least in GM cars.
Seems to me I remember seeing them on early- to mid-1960s AMC (Rambler)
products. And not to belabour the point too much: at least in my 1951
Chevrolet, unless you were climbing a long hill or otherwise loading the
engine, you had the advantage of infinitely variable wiper speed
depending on how far you turned the wiper switch knob.
Back to electric wipers -- there is, perhaps, no more visually challenged
group than those who have ventured out into precipitation in an MG TC or
TD, or (almost as bad) a TR2 or TR3. (Please, no flames from Dellow
Swallow, SS100 or HRG owners -- you can't be any worse off!)
Andy Mace
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