I've previously posted this late 1964 whistling past the graveyard by Studebaker President Roy Bender:
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...but now may have to eat my words about Studebaker's engines being better because they have timing gears rather than a floppy chain & sprockets!
I say that because I was perusing some automobile magazine advertisements in an antique store the other day and came across a 1950 or 1951 Plymouth advertisement extolling many of Plymouth's "value features." Among them was an illustration of a timing chain & sprocket arrangement versus a timing gear arrangement for camshaft drive.
The Plymouth engine had sprocket & gear. That was explained as being superior because, "The camshaft drive load is distributed over many teeth on both the drive and driven gears, whereas the [allegedly inferior] timing gear arrangement distributes the load over just a couple teeth at a time."
By George, I hadn't considered that!
You learn something new every day.
BP
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...but now may have to eat my words about Studebaker's engines being better because they have timing gears rather than a floppy chain & sprockets!
I say that because I was perusing some automobile magazine advertisements in an antique store the other day and came across a 1950 or 1951 Plymouth advertisement extolling many of Plymouth's "value features." Among them was an illustration of a timing chain & sprocket arrangement versus a timing gear arrangement for camshaft drive.
The Plymouth engine had sprocket & gear. That was explained as being superior because, "The camshaft drive load is distributed over many teeth on both the drive and driven gears, whereas the [allegedly inferior] timing gear arrangement distributes the load over just a couple teeth at a time."
By George, I hadn't considered that!


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