On Tue, 27 Dec 1994, Andy Mace wrote:
> Seems to me I remember seeing them on early- to mid-1960s AMC (Rambler)
> products. And not to belabour the point too much: at least in my 1951
> Chevrolet, unless you were climbing a long hill or otherwise loading the
> engine, you had the advantage of infinitely variable wiper speed
> depending on how far you turned the wiper switch knob.
I remember that well. The 1939 Buick, 1940 Chevrolet, 1949 Pontiac, and
1950 Chevrolet my family had when I started driving all had vacuum wipers.
The Pontiac had a vacuum assist on the fuel pump which was supposed to
keep the wipers going under low vacuum conditions, but it was only mildly
successful.
> Back to electric wipers -- there is, perhaps, no more visually challenged
> group than those who have ventured out into precipitation in an MG TC or
> TD, or (almost as bad) a TR2 or TR3. (Please, no flames from Dellow
> Swallow, SS100 or HRG owners -- you can't be any worse off!)
I'm well aquainted with T-Type MG wipers (see signature), and the wipers
in my TR4 are basically the same as the TR2/3 design (not bad as long as
everything works freely).
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Chip Old 1948 M.G. TC TC6710 NEMGTR #2271
Cub Hill, Maryland 1962 Triumph TR4 CT3154LO (daily transportation)
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