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on May 17 2016 |
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by Alastair Sloane |
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Jamieson Handy was an educational film producer in 1930s America, who mostly revealed the inner workings of things mechanical, like automotive gearboxes, differentials, fuel systems and so on. In this black and white video, enhanced from his vintage 1935 series, Handy looks at the development of suspension systems, and what affect they had on a vehicle’s dynamics. It’s basically a long commercial for Chevrolet, produced when the carmaker’s independent ‘knee-action’ coil-spring front suspension was truly state-of-the-art.
Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for almost 50 years.
Has had all sorts of roles along the way, including editing two daily newspapers. Joined the NZ Herald from the Sunday Star-Times in 1996 to help launch a sports weekly. Became motoring editor of the Herald soon after, a position he held until leaving in 2012. He owns a 1968 VW Beetle. Best days at the wheel include doing part of the Land Rover Camel Trophy route in Papua New Guinea, driving a Nissan Patrol over earthquake-hit roads in Guatemala, and a Ferrari Italia 458 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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