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lot of theory but not a great deal of practice was evident at the conference on automatic arboxes run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Road Transport gineers at Solihull last week.
I'm told that few operators re present at the conference, lich was dominated by inufacturers' reps and rned boffins from the halved halls of university oratories.
Did you know, for example, it the dynamic force due to a lion gear meshing with a sun )r is Ao + EAh sin (hwt + 1-k>, Lph)?
You didn't? Neither did I. I 1:1 trouble with "pie are Jared''.
In a more serious vein, it was )orted to me that the few N-ators who were at Solihull de their views known in no certain manner, The Techni
Editor will discuss these ws in next week's issue and, the end of his piece, you and I I, hopefully, know a bit more DLit the subject in layman's guage.
Why do people make life so 'icult, I wonder? It seems we can, given time, turn anything into an exact science with its own language, so that fewer and fewer people ever begin to understand what it is about. That, in turn, leads to a select little group of knowledgeable people who can meet regularly to discuss their favourite subject.