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FLUID FLYWHEEL TRANSMISSION
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(Patent No. 3531330 "Perhaps the most searching of all tests that can be imposed upon the fluid flywheel occurs when the vehicle is made to start from rest on top gear. The vehicle was brought to rest with the top gear still engaged while the engine was ticking over at low speed, in which circumstance the fluid flywheel transmits no power whatever. Then, at a given signal, the stopwatch was set in action, and, simultaneously, the driver depressed the accelerator pedal, to which movement the vehicle responded im mediately and began to glide forward with a complete absence of transmission tremor. Directly the speedometer registered a speed of 30 m.p.h. the watch was stopped, and was found to record the astonishingly low figure of 19 2/5 sec. This was verified by two further tests without revealing any timing error. Two facts are therefore proved: one, which we already knew, that the fluid flywheel is equally as certain in action as the normal type of friction clutch; the other, that the new Daimler poppet-valve engine is capable of exerting a powerful torque over a very wide range of speeds."—Modern Transport.