In article , fred
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On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at 4:58:16 PM UTC, Dave Plowman (News)
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In article , Brian Gaff
wrote:
Actually my neighbour had a Metro and boy could that thing move. The
speedo kind of just hit the end and after that it was guesswork. Only
problem with it was that it tended to be full of rust even when new.

As I said - a very optimistic speedo. Some makers today do just the
same. When making one which is within 1% accuracy should be child's
play since they are counting pulses.

-- *The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in school was my blood alcohol
content*

Dave Plowman London SW To
e-mail, change noise into sound.

Years ago when speedometers were mechanically driven I had a Cortina with
an automatic box. I had always thought it was very noisy at 70 or so mph
so I had a friend trail me one night. THe speedo was under reading byt
about 8 mph. I often wondered ift they had fitted the wromng cable

Ah, so the 100mph I wound my Cortina IV up to on the M4 might have been
even higher.

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