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GM's Automatic Safety Transmission (AST) was a semi-automatic transmission released in 1937. The first mass-produced fully-automatic transmission developed for passenger automobile use was the GM Hydramatic introduced in 1940. [1] The Hydramatic was a big success, and had been installed in the majority of GM models by 1950.
The GM–Ford 6-speed automatic transmission is an automatic transaxle originally designed for transverse engine applications in cars. With design work having begun in 2002, General Motors and Ford Motor Company jointly committed to investing US$ 720 million in their manufacturing plants to support the new transmission.
The 6L 50 (and similar 6L 45) is a 6-speed longitudinally-mounted automatic transmission produced by General Motors.It is very similar in design to the larger GM 6L 80 and 6L 90, and is produced at GM Powertrain plants in Toledo, Ohio; Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico; and by the independent Punch Powerglide company in Strasbourg, France.
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When it comes to one key metric, General Motors (NYSE: GM) just overtook Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and did so pretty significantly. Let's see what that could mean for investors.
The OCD-D-101 is a GM tube replacement kit for the CD V-700 introduced in 1963. [7] The kit, which was produced by Lionel Electronic Labs and EON Corporation, is designed to decrease the sensitivity of Model 6, 6A & 6B meters by ten times. This would result in the following ranges: x10 (0-5 mR/h or 0-3000 C/m) x100 (0-50 mR/h or 0-30000 C/m)
Since before World War II, GM has treated Buick as a design showcase. The 1938 Buick Y Job, a long, low convertible, is generally regarded as the auto industry’s first “concept car.”
The inline six-cylinder 71 series engine was introduced as the initial flagship product of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division of General Motors in 1938.. This engine was in high demand during WWII, necessitating a dramatic increase in output: about 57,000 6-71s were used on American landing craft, including 19,000 on LCVPs, about 8,000 on LCM Mk 3, and about 9,000 in quads on LCIs; and 39,000 ...