variable speed transmission

His initial design for a variable speed transmission, used in the magneto test bench, was of prime importance.

It was a luxury car, had variable speed transmission and reportedly made several cross-country jaunts.

His vehicles were not very successful but his variable speed transmission and muffler were.

The new variable speed transmission used friction discs, not gears, and also allowed the car to brake by reversing the lever.

Reeves, with his interest in motor vehicles, began to develop a motocycle and in so doing adapted his variable speed transmission.

The Vespa ET2 has automatic variable speed transmission, while electric start is standard, the traditional kick-starter has been retained for emergency use.

Another San Diego-based company, Fallbrook Technologies, a maker of variable speed transmissions, recently announced it is leaving for Texas.

It had a belt and pulley based variable speed transmission which he believed made it superior to Henry Ford's Quadricycle with only one speed.

Because of the phenomenal torque available at all engine speeds, the steam car's engine was typically geared directly to the rear axle, with no clutch or variable speed transmission required.

The variable speed transmission continued to be made by the Reeves Pulley Company up until 1955 when it was acquired by the Reliance Electric Company, now part of the Baldor Electric Company.

Gruver, "An Automatically Variable Speed Transmission with Self-Adaptability for Prosthetic Hands," Proc. of the Seventh World Congress for Prosthetics and Orthotics (extended abstract), Chicago, IL, June 1992, p 364.