The 'Queerbox' was the nickname for an early sequential manual transaxle used by Lotus racing cars of the late-1950s and early-1960s, and was very similar...

Porsche Type 360 Cisitalia in 1946, followed by the infamously unreliable Queerbox design, pioneered by Richard Ansdale and Harry Mundy, which was used in...

combined with ZF limited-slip differential, had gained the nickname "Queerbox", or "Gearbox-full of neutrals" for its poor reliability. With Duckworth...

a (long-undiagnosed) oil starvation problem, thus earned the nickname "Queerbox" for its unreliability. Although the first two examples of Lotus 12 had...

Prix racing, mated to Lotus' own 5 speed sequential transaxle nicknamed 'Queerbox'. It was designed in 1957, and the production began in late 1957. The spaceframe...

Prix cars, mated to Lotus' own five-speed sequential transaxle nicknamed 'Queerbox' which gave a lot of problems on the Lotus 15, but was improved in its...

qualified third, only to fall victim to his Lotus 16's notoriously unreliable "queerbox": the car became stuck in gear and stalled on the grid, with all drivers...

working for Lotus as a gearbox engineer. Given the task of fixing the 'Queerbox's' unreliability problems, he fell out with Chapman who would not support...

proved troublesome and gained itself the derogatorily punning nickname "queerbox". However, in 1957 Chapman had hired Keith Duckworth (later to find fame...