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Itsfrom Click

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Jan 1, 2010, 12:06:53 PM1/1/10
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can someone jog my memory:

was is Clyde Patton or Barney Roos......working with Stude or Packard
who developed replaceable shell bearings?

The answer is buried in a book around here somewhere......whichever it
was, he was one of "our guys" working with Cleveland Grapite Bronze Co.
(which became Clevite) and they were introduced as another "first" on
one of "our brands".

Studebaker George

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Jan 1, 2010, 7:03:24 PM1/1/10
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Your post made me drag out my old books and poke around but I couldn't
find a mention of the bearings. Roos sure was an interesting
character. Back in my misspent youth, I frequented a bar that had a
large framed copy of his famous steam fire engine. Awesome! I still
get chills when I see that pic...
Studebaker George

SMITH29

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Jan 9, 2010, 3:46:15 PM1/9/10
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Here's the patent.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2131170.pdf

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SMITH29

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Jan 9, 2010, 3:50:26 PM1/9/10
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Corporate history.
http://www.buntingbearings.com/history.html

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Itsfrom Click

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Jan 10, 2010, 12:40:13 PM1/10/10
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Thanks for the info & links.

I did some Googleing last week and lots of outfits seem to take credit
including Kettering/GM.

Somewhere in all my piles of old mags I have the definitive article and
the key would be which automaker was the first to use replaceable shell
bearings in a volume production car. It was probably Packard.....mid or
late 30s?


Also lost to time is where I was driving 20+ years ago - somewhere in
the middle-of-nowhere NE Ohio - when I came across a relatively small
Clevite factory. It had an Ohio Historical marker in front saying it
was where the first insert bearings were produced and I believe it cited
Barney Roos.

Never found the place again.......just like that junkyard in rural Ohio
that had the '53 Caribbean & XK150.............or the time I was
blowing-thru a crossroads outside Bowling Green, Oh, and stopped to look
at a guy's yard full of '47-'48 Caddies and he took me in the barn to
show me his '31 V-16 opera sedan. Oh well, I didn't have a spare $500
at the time anyway!!!!

Deepnhock

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Jan 10, 2010, 1:22:01 PM1/10/10
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Still looking......
But....

Found these while searching

(Thomas Edison)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=539

(Kettering)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=761

(Barney Roos)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=226

(Timken)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=706

(Charles Furnas)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=106106

(Xerox)
http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=867

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