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[VintageLambo] Re: Inventions |
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| In a message dated 5/28/2003 11:13:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, jaguarxj_s@yahoo.com writes: > 1st car with all around disk brakes in the US was a > Chrysler Imperial in 1955 or 1956 cannot remember > which. They were made by Bendix, strange looking, but > they were disk brakes. > Chad Bolles It was 1950 through 1954, I think, and they were a strange sort of brake that did include a disc shaped component, but they were never used again. They used what were really twin disc shaped brake shoes that spread apart to rub against the inner surface of a cast iron drum, and the system was designed to produce a lighter pedal due to a servo effect, rather than to have less fade or more power, the usual reasons we like disc brakes. While this is often quoted as the first US use of disc brakes, I"m not sure I"d agree, as the basic disc brake design is a disc clamped between two friction surfaces, and the Chrysler system didn"t do this. I don"t know that using brake shoes that happen to be disc shaped, inside a brake drum, counts. Bill Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life"s Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/9jLplB/TM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to |
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