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    Operation Gearbox (30 June – 17 September 1942) was a joint Norwegian and British operation to occupy the Arctic island of Spitsbergen during the Second...
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    Operation Gearbox II (17 September 1942 – 7 September 1943) was a Norwegian and British operation during the Second World War on the Arctic island of...
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  • transmission Gearbox Software, a video game company Gearbox Records, a recording company Operation Gearbox, a World War II military operation in 1942 Operation Gearbox...
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    facility at Lowe Sound, Spitsbergen, and re-supply the garrison there (Operation Gearbox). She then refitted at a shipyard on the Humber before rejoining the...
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    thwarted. Operation Gearbox II (17 September 1942 – 7 September 1943) was a Norwegian and British operation. The reinforcements of Operation Gearbox consolidated...
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    weather bases, evacuated wounded and rescued shipwrecked sailors. Operation Gearbox (30 June – 17 September 1942) superseded Fritham, after HMS Manchester...
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    with disaster but by the summer of 1943, the later Allied Operation Gearbox and Operation Gearbox II secured Allied control of the islands. The Kriegsmarine...
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    A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device invented by Louis Renault (who founded Renault) which uses a gear set—two or more gears...
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    An automatic transmission (AT) or automatic gearbox is a multi-speed transmission used in motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver...
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    A preselector gearbox is a type of manual transmission mostly used on passenger cars and racing cars in the 1930s, in buses from 1940–1960 and in armoured...
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    enough to be practical, the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe ('dual-clutch gearbox') (PDK) transmission was installed as a prototype in a Porsche 956 Le Mans...
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    Duke of York and Anson participated in Operation Gearbox, which was designed to draw attention away from Operation Husky. Duke of York was also instrumental...
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    Lackenbauer [2017] unless indicated. Operation Fritham Operation Gearbox Operation Gearbox II Operation Zitronella Operation Haudegen Schofield & Nesbit 2005...
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    direct-shift gearbox (DSG, German: Direktschaltgetriebe) is an electronically controlled, dual-clutch, multiple-shaft, automatic gearbox, in either a...
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    A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States), or stick shift...
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    actuate shifts manually. Add-on AMTs can also function as a regular manual gearbox (with a manual shift lever), whereas integrated AMTs do not need a "normal"...
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  • Formula 3 Championships currently use 6-speed sequential gearboxes with electro-hydraulic operation via shift paddles. Manual control of the multi-plate clutch...
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    geared turbofan is a type of turbofan aircraft engine with a planetary gearbox between the low pressure compressor / turbine and the ducted fan, enabling...
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    Shortly after returning to service, in early June 1943 she took part in Operation Gearbox III, the relief of the garrison at Spitsbergen. On 18 June 1943, Athabaskan...
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    The accessory drive is a gearbox that forms part of a gas turbine engine. Although not part of the engine's core, it drives the accessories – such as...
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  • Operation Rentier ('Reindeer') was a German operation during World War II intended to secure the nickel mines around Petsamo in Finland, against a Soviet...
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    Cruiser Covering Force (CCF) with HMS Norfolk, Suffolk and London. Operation Gearbox II, a concurrent supply run, was to be made to Svalbard by the cruisers...
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  • Operation Birke (Operation Birch) was a German operation late in World War II in Finnish Lapland to protect access to nickel. Finnish attempts to find...
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  • Murmansk. It was part of a larger operation, called Operation Silver Fox (Silberfuchs; Hopeakettu). At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa German units of...
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    the gearbox, to minimize pitch throughout the 200-milliseconds shift time). Two six-speed transmissions were available, a conventional manual gearbox and...
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    Operation Silver Fox (German: Silberfuchs; Finnish: Hopeakettu) or Murmansk operation (Russian: Мурманская операция) from 29 June to 17 November 1941...
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    required a gearbox ratio even higher than this, i.e. the gearbox output shaft rotating faster than the engine. The propeller shaft linking gearbox and rear...
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    the departure of King George V and Howe for Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily. Operation Gearbox in June 1943 involved a sweep by Duke of York...
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    Operation Catechism was a British air raid of World War II that destroyed the German battleship Tirpitz. It was conducted on 12 November 1944 by 29 Royal...
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    Operation Caesar (Unternehmen Kaiser) was a secret mission carried out by Germany in the Second World War to supply Japan with advanced technology. The...
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