[Healeys] 1930's Austin CVT gearbox

[John Sims]

I have a link to this site on the Links page, Healey History section of my
site. Tremendous amount of information that I find to be extremely
interesting

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ

www.healey6.com

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 8:29 PM
To: Healey
Subject: [Healeys] 1930's Austin CVT gearbox

All -

I assume the low sales of this unit were due to it's very high cost, but
nonetheless the technology behind this is very interesting.  It is also
interesting because this may very well be the very first CVT box ever made:

http://www.austinmemories.com/page139/page139.html

I also like the elegance of the design, I have to imagine with modern
materials, this could actually be made to work quite well, although the
gearing range may be a bit limited, hard to say.  Would love to ride in a
car that has a working example.  I am a dyed in the wool gear-head, after
all.

Best,

Alan