Russell's Hydraulic Drive and Plywood Mobile

[Tuckerfan1053]

Interesting post on Hemming's Blog about a designer who had some of the same ideas as Tucker (and had been interviewed in 1946 by Charles Pearson, Tucker's occasional press agent and official biographer). Here's what he said he was working on in 1942:

“The new car is not a hundred-mile-an-hour, chrome-plated, gadget covered hearse,” he said in December 1942. “It’s a safe, practical car to take us to work at 35 miles an hour, using only a gallon of gas every 40 miles.”

The post is here: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010 ... ent-708410

[Tuckeroo]

Something that didn't click until I re-read it:

...Ray Russell, a Detroit engineer and one of my best listening posts, suggested: "Why don't you go and see Tucker? I hear he's got something."

-Charles T. Pearson, The Indomitable Tin Goose

It appears it was Russell's suggestion that brought Tucker and Pearson together! How well did Russell and Tucker know each other?

[Tuckerfan1053]

[Dr. Peter Venkman] Mother pus bucket! [/DPV] I just reread Tin Goose and completely missed that!

[Tuckeroo]

[Dr. Peter Venkman] Mother pus bucket! [/DPV] I just reread Tin Goose and completely missed that!

One of those situations where I found it when I wasn't looking for it. And, as is often the case in these situations, the thing I was looking for I did not find...

[Tuckeroo]

Every Raymond Loves Hydraulic-Drive (?):

It seems Australian Raymond Moore may have beat Raymond Russell (and Preston Tucker) by a decade with his hydraulic drive:

http://wwwbollyblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/raymond-v4-and-hydraulic-transmission.html

He even had time to give it reverse-flow! (Possibly being South of the Equator and being able to take advantage of minute amounts of the Coriolis Effect from Down-Under, I don't know...)