October 24 - Caleb Bragg dies

I'm more amazed every day at how few antique car people have any concept as to how that shifter system works. We had one awhile back that would not shift, so I pulled the front cover so I could shift it by hand to move it where it needed to go, and a guy who had been around Cords for years wanted to know what all that junk was.

On this date in 1943 Caleb S. Bragg, pioneer racer and co-inventor with Victor W. Kliesrath of a power brake, died in New York City at age 58. Their Bragg-Kliesrath Company was purchased in the 1930s by Bendix Aviation, and supplied the main shift cylinder for the Cord 810/812.