15-10-2018, 10:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-10-2018, 11:12 PM by Bob Culver.)
My car was used in city traffic and main road and always run to 30 mph in 3rd except downhill. The revs about the same as 30 mph in 2nd in standard swb 3 speed cars.
The Austin change up speeds are conservative but somewhere I found an Austin recommended change down figure which was not quite so. Seven owners learn lightning double declutch but I suppose a generous allowance was made for speed loss for others.
In their day few mature owners would have ever exceeded 45 mph and many never saw that! My father used to say that at 45 mph on our only "'motorway"' just post war, was the fast lane! He found 45 mph on long trips (200 miles) on roads of time too tiring and later settled for 40.
The Austin change up speeds are conservative but somewhere I found an Austin recommended change down figure which was not quite so. Seven owners learn lightning double declutch but I suppose a generous allowance was made for speed loss for others.
In their day few mature owners would have ever exceeded 45 mph and many never saw that! My father used to say that at 45 mph on our only "'motorway"' just post war, was the fast lane! He found 45 mph on long trips (200 miles) on roads of time too tiring and later settled for 40.