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The Baker name continued only through 1916. Electric cars were available in several body styles, including some with four doors, which was unusual for an electric. A choice of front or back-seat steering was available. [2] The Owen Magnetic was produced in the Baker R & L Company plants from 1916 to 1919.
August named the new company after Monroe County, New York, but without the "e" at the end of the name. [3] August added brake services several years later and renamed the company, Monro Muffler Brake, Inc. [3] Monro began a deliberate course of prudent expansion, arriving at 20 stores by 1977. [2] They had a warehouse on West Henrietta Road.
A Woodhead-Monroe coil-over-shock-absorber at each wheel handled springing and damping. Brakes were by Girling, with 305 mm (12 in) disks at the front and 279 mm (11 in) disks mounted inboard at the rear. Dunlop tires were mounted on Dunlop knock-off wire wheels. Steering was by a BMC rack-and-pinion unit with 2.5 turns lock-to-lock. [24]
Monroe was president, while Durant was vice-president. There was a cross-stockholding arrangement between the Monroe and Chevrolet companies. Construction of the Monroe cars occurred in a plant formerly used by Chevrolet in Flint, and the Chevrolet company undertook to distribute the new Monroe automobile.
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Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. [4] It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market. [5]
Steering: Marles steering gear [68] Brakes f/r: Lockheed 11 in × 1.75 in (279 mm × 44 mm) twin leading shoe / 10 in × 1.75 in (254 mm × 44 mm) Suspension front: Trailing arms, coil springs, hydraulic lever arm dampers, anti-roll bar: Suspension rear: Torque tube, live axle, radius rods, coil springs, telescopic dampers, Panhard rod
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