Interesting Brief History of Car Brakes

[Tom Wesenberg]

I did a Google search to see what car first used Disc brakes, and I came across this interesting time period chart for brakes.

http://www.carhistory4u.com/the-last...the-car/brakes

[Mitch]

a nice site you found for all kinds of trivial facts...

[Mike]

Very informative thank you
mike

[Brian in Wheeling]

Left out is the fact that the British MGA 1600 had factory front disk brakes in, on or about 1960.

As as an aside: The MGA, even earlier came with factory rack and pinion steering also, years before either were adopted by U.S. automakers! Electric fuel pumps (now standard on all cars) were used on the MG vehicles even in the 1940s.

[DustDevil]

Thanks, Tom... A good read for us history buffs!

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Anybody remember he Early Chrysler disc brakes? They looked like Multi-Disc Clutch parts & scream like a BANSHEE!! A Friend had them on a '34 Ford & we still call him, "SQUEEKIE"---Most folks don't even know his REAL NAME!
Bill Quiet

[Drive Shaft Dave]

I did a Google search to see what car first used Disc brakes, and I came across this interesting time period chart for brakes.

http://www.carhistory4u.com/the-last...the-car/brakes

Toms page didn't work for me, not the first car to use disc brakes but the 62 Studebaker Lark had them as an option.

[Greynomad]

Toms page didn't work for me, not the first car to use disc brakes but the 62 Studebaker Lark had them as an option.

The link doesn't work for me either but here's another interesting piece of trivia. Radial ply tyres were invented in 1915 but not commercialised till the late 40s by Michelin.

[Randy in ca]

All I get is:

Sorry, this page doesn't exist.
Please check the URL or go back a page.

404 Error. Page Not Found.

[Mitch]

Here ya go
The Way Back Machine has it
https://web.archive.org/web/20150311...the-car/brakes

Lots of other good info also

[Drive Shaft Dave]

All I get is:

Sorry, this page doesn't exist.
Please check the URL or go back a page.

404 Error. Page Not Found.

Thats what I got.

[Drive Shaft Dave]

Here ya go
The Way Back Machine has it
https://web.archive.org/web/20150311...the-car/brakes

Lots of other good info also

Thanks Mitch and Tom.

[Patrick]

Toms page didn't work for me, not the first car to use disc brakes but the 62 Studebaker Lark had them as an option.

Studebaker used the 'modern' type caliper disk brake on the Avanti as standard equipment and optional on other models. This was the first use of these brakes as standard equipment on an American vehicle. The ones used on other vehicles prior were different [ and strange] designs compared to what we are now used to.