On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:22:10 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

A crash box and a motorcycle type aren't the same. On a crash box the
gears actually slide into mesh. A motorcycle box is constant mesh with dog
clutches to engage them.

Just how old are you ? 8-)

There are plenty of "crash boxes" with dogs - pretty much anything
post war. They're not sliding-gear boxes, they're not synchro boxes,
but in the absence of a better term we call them crash boxes just the
same.

Motorbikes have the advantage of a sequential shift too - they can
shift from one ratio to the other with a lot less faffing about than a
wobbling joystick.

What was the last crash box in production ? Landies ? bottom cog in
Heralds ?
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Smert' spamionam