Oh’ ya’ – shift motor, F – N – R. But what an engineers wet dream. I don’t know if they were trying to avoid patent infringement issues or if the engineering department just “got away” from the bean counters. The Lauson “transmission it built into the leg below the powerhead and contains a automotive style disc clutch and a planetary gear train for reverse. The entire thing is a elegant assembly of bearings, springs and leavers. With the planetary reverse, you only ger half speed in reverse. To make things even more complicated the gear shift lever are linked to both the transmission and the carburetor, so as to prevent overspeed in neutral and reverse. I believe that they only made this trans for a couple of years, maybe 1951 -53 … before the bean counters caught up to them.
Joe B
