RE: The loud switch

["Sedon, Doug (OD/ORS)" <sedond@domain.elided>]

john always seems to have the correct answer to everything - that's it!!!  it's
the loud switch!
:>)  seriously, as for cars, i've heard most everything; for bikes it's usually
the throttle...

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	JHertzman@domain.elided [SMTP:JHertzman@domain.elided]
	Sent:	Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:15 AM
	To:	alfa-digest@domain.elided
	Cc:	Sedon, Doug (OD/ORS)
	Subject:	The loud switch

	dug sedon is debating Michael Williams on the trenchant question "Now is
it a 
	throttle or gas pedal?"

	dunno, as dug sed, but in my dictionary 'throttle' and 'choke' have
virtually 
	identical meanings; to throttle is to choke. 'Throttle' got to its
automotive 
	use by way of the steam engine, where the throttle obstructs the flow of

	steam from the boiler (normally at full chat) to the cylinder- "regolare
la 
	pressione del vapore". The term Alfa uses in all of the owner's manuals
I 
	have handy is "accelerator", conveniently opposite in meaning to
"brake", and 
	as far as I can tell it is "acceleratore" in Italian. 

	John

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