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AP Lockheed disc brake caliper. Automotive Products, commonly abbreviated to AP, was an automotive industry components company set up in 1920 by Edward Boughton, Willie Emmott and Denis Brock, to import and sell American-made components to service the fleet of ex-military trucks left behind in Europe after World War I.
The Duesenberg Straight Eight was the first production automobile to use Lockheed Corporation Hydraulic brakes on all four wheels. [1] [14] [15] The brakes on the front wheels were 16 inches (410 mm) in diameter and were finned to dissipate heat. The fluid used in the system was a mixture of glycerine and water.
The steering was rack and pinion and Lockheed brakes were fitted with 9 in (230 mm) drums all round. [2] In keeping with the up-market positioning of the Wolseley brand the car had upmarket trim with polished walnut dashboard and door cappings and leather seats and a traditional Wolseley radiator grille with illuminated badge.
During the mid-1920s Alfred Teves acquired from Lockheed Corporation in North America a license to produce hydraulic braking systems for cars. The Adler Standard 6, introduced to the market in October 1926 at the Berlin Motor Show, was the first volume-produced car outside North America to feature hydraulic brakes. The subassemblies were ...
US 2140752 Brake. La Brie 1938-12-20; US 2084216 V-type brake for motor vehicles. Poage Robert A. and Poage Marlin Z. 1937-06-15; US 2028488 Brake. Avery William Leicester 1936-02-21; US 1959049 Friction Brake. Buus Niels Peter Valdemar 1934-05-15; US 1954534 Brake. Norton Raymond J 1934-04-10; US 1721370 Brake for use on vehicles. Boughton ...
Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft brakes, aeronautical hydraulics and electric power systems, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers.
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer.Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin.Its founder, Allan Lockheed, had earlier founded the similarly named but otherwise-unrelated Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company, which was operational from 1912 to 1920.
As opposed to the competing MGs, the Singer had more powerful and dependable hydraulic Lockheed brakes. [5] The Nine Le Mans, while not particularly successful at the track which gave it its name, clocked up an impressive number of wins at hillclimbs, trials, and various endurance races such as the Liège-Rome-Liège and the Alpine Cup Rally. [5]