Show SHIFTING GEARS BY ELECTRICITY BY-ELECTRICITY The members of ot th the Detroit Section 3 S. A. A E. E turned out In numbers to hear the advocates ate of ot shifting sears gears by electricity elec at the November meeting of ot the society hold held In Detroit Throe Three paper papers were presented present at the meeting W. W A. A McCarrell chief engineer engi engi- neer Vulcan Motor Devices company Philadelphia Pa discussed A Specific Typo of Electric Gear Shifter Electro Magnets Magnet and Their Application to Gear Shifting was the tho subject of ot C. C B. B Underhill Underhill Under Under- hill bill chief electrical engineer Acme Wire company New Haven Conn while the principal paper of the evening was WM that read adby by N. N Nutt chief engineer the he Haynes Automobile company Kokomo Koko- Koko mo mp Ind lad who discoursed on The Ap Ap- Ap- Ap of the tho Electric Gear Shift Shirt Interviewed at the close cioe of the meet- meet Irig ng one prominent automobile engineer staled stated th that t sooner or later even tho the manufacturers manufacturers man nina of or low priced cars would bo be obliged ed to adopt the e electric gear shiftIng shiftIng shifting shift- shift Ing device Inasmuch as 5 It Is a aast vast ast Im Improvement improvement Im- Im provement ment over the hand shift method which necessitates th the us use of a Do lever to start the car as well wen as to shift shUt from one speed to another Lantern slides were introduced to 11 It- lustrate tho the talk of ot Frank N. N r- r Nutt ruU Who In n the course of his remarks said that this new device do would woud surely popularize tho ho gasoline car among women duo to the fact tad that the control and operation of the entire car was RII centered in tn a n push button electric electrio switch conveniently located on Ion tho the steering wheel Simultaneously with mth the adoption of the electric gear shift shUt continued Mr Nutt the tho production of Haynes Hayne cars carF was waa doubled and our deliveries to date have greatly exceeded our previous best figures fig fig- ures during an any similar period which illustrates that the tho automobile public welcomes this innovation |