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GM7HUD > CARS 03.08.08 17:21l 20 Lines 827 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 7A5188GM7HUD
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Subj: Re: "Spicyolic" gearbox VK3API
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G4EBT wrote:-
>
> There's no such word as spicyolic - you'll only find one google reference
> to it. Brian Sewell is a "wordsmith" - I assume he invented the world to
> combine "spicy" - as in "hot", and "olic" (from colic) as in "not" (colic
> meaning and inflammation of the colon, from late Latin, coilicus).
As Sewell is a well know technotard he probably got epicyclic wrong and
refused to be corrected. The Daimlers of the period used a 4 speed
pre-selector gearbox. The gear selector control was used to energise
different solenoids, the solenoids were used to control clutch bands on a
standard 4 speed epicyclic gear box.
If you have ever been on a Leylan Atlantean bus you will have seen the
minute gear control on the dashboard for the epicyclic gearbox looking like
a miniature gearlever.
73 de Andy GM7HUD
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