General Motors Technical Center, Engineering Staff, hydraulics laboratory
Automobile Reference Domestic Cars, Makes A-Z
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Item No: arcd06514
Title: General Motors Technical Center, Engineering Staff, hydraulics laboratory
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Source: Automobile Reference Collection
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ONE THOUSAND GALLONS of water a minutes swirls over this large flow table in General Motors Engineering Staff’s hydraulics laboratory at GM Technical Center. It courses through “straightening vanes,” which can be seen in the foreground, and flows around oversize wooden turbine blades. From studies of flow patterns on this testing device, engineers of Engineering Staff’s Transmission Development group can determine the best shapes for turbine blade designs in automatic transmissions and torque converters for automobiles, trucks and buses.
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