Hudson 1937 electric hand?

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    There are those on this forum that are far more knowledgeable that I on the 1930's cars but Hudson had this system that used sevros of some type to shift your car for you and all you had to do was move the lever on the device as attached on the column. If I remember right, the floor shifter could be taken out of the car completely and a cover of some type bolted over the shift tower.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Check out my site, you will get your answer.

    www.HudsonTerraplane.com
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    We have one of these at our parts store at

    store.avaloncity.com

    check it out - tell me what you know about it

    mike cosmo the partsguy@hetparts.com

    30? ? Electric Ghost Shift Handy Shift Controller depress clutch with shifting LRHS -Condition G -Serial Number unknown
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    In short, what you're looking at is the pre-selector that mounts on the steering column for the Bendix Electric Hand unit which shifted via a vacuum can when you pushed the clutch, to the pre-selected gear.



    Covered in the late 30s Chilton's and elsewhere.



    I have one on the 39 Country Club Eight. Not sure it was original that late, but it's there.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Were these the precursor to the Drivemaster units available in later years?

    Jay
  • Park_W
    Park_W Senior Contributor
    The unit pictured on E-Bay is for a '37 and later model. The "Electric Hand" gearshift system was introduced in '35, and the companion vacuum-operated clutch a year earlier. And yes, the Drivemaster systems were an outgrowth of these two earlier options ... they actually used some of the same hardware. The Electric Hand system was developed by Bendix and marketed to the industry. Hudson bought it first, then Cord, with some variation to accomodate their 4-speed tranny. Post WWII, Tucker used a variant of it, as did the French Delahayes. Parts Guy Mike, yours is for a '35, as I told your partner at Pratts' Meet recently.
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