Dunlop's Maxaret was the first anti-lock braking system (ABS) to be widely used. Introduced in the early 1950s, Maxaret was rapidly taken up in the aviation...
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wheel steering and landing gear retraction), being fitted with Maxaret as standard. Maxaret, while reducing braking distances by up to 30% in icy or wet...
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by the Transport Research Laboratory to test the Maxaret anti-lock brake on motorcycles. The Maxaret works by detecting rapid decelerations of the wheel...
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time it was hailed as a remarkable development, coming also with Dunlop Maxaret mechanical anti-lock brakes and traction control. The car is five inches...
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Quattro by fourteen years, and the Subaru Leone by five years. The Dunlop Maxaret mechanical anti-lock braking system had previously been used only on aircraft...
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by a bullet. After the war he helped to develop anti-skid (ABS) brakes (Maxaret) for the aircraft division of Dunlop in Coventry. He formed Andrews Maclaren...
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from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014. "maxaret unit - maxaret automatic - brake pressure - 1953 - 1433 - Flight Archive". Flightglobal...
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military aircraft using established technology similar to Dunlop's earlier Maxaret. The technology is similar to the notched wheel and reluctor now used in...
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via wing storage, the more powerful RA.7 model of the Avon engine, and Maxaret antilock braking system. The Canberra PR.9 was the final photo-reconnaissance...
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anti-lock braking system on the fighters. Training variants had the Dunlop Maxaret anti-skid system fitted.[citation needed] Royal Air Force In 1946, the...
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it made Concorde's airframe from the Hiduminium R.R.58 aluminium alloy. Maxaret, the world's first ABS braking system, was invented in Coventry by Dunlop...
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locking differentials actuated by a viscous coupling and the same Dunlop Maxaret mechanical anti-lock braking system as used in the Jensen. The cars differed...
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featured anti-lock braking that would later be known as ABS. The Dunlop Maxaret system was modified from its original use on airplanes. Ford Australia...
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adopted, the first on a production sports car. Also featured was the Dunlop Maxaret anti-lock braking system in one of the first uses of ABS in a production...
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bogie trim; nosewheel centring and steering; wheel brakes (fitted with Maxarets); bomb doors opening and closing; and (B.2 only) AAPP air scoop lowering...
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sufficient to propel the Lightning to 80 mph if brakes were not used. Dunlop Maxaret anti-lock brakes were fitted. The Lightning fuel capacity was increased...
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Aintree, proving without doubt the four-wheel drive allied to the Dunlop Maxaret braking system was substantially superior in the wet. The P99 was run under...
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keeping wheel brake temperatures low. Brakes were fitted with the Dunlop Maxaret anti-skid system. The Trident had a complex, sophisticated and comprehensive...
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original company, who designed the brakes for Concorde and had also invented Maxaret, the world's first anti-lock braking system (ABS), in the early 1950s which...
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of Decelostat. In aviation, Dunlop introduced an antiskid unit called Maxaret in the 1950s using the flywheel concept similar to the Decelostat. By the...
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