Oct 2005 ------ July 1979 TW: >"............you raised the old bogey of the 1953 Mechanical Power Steering >unit. I helped write the 1953 shop manual, you will recall, and that section >was one of our most embarrassing. I have no idea how many of the Bendix >mechanical units were bought by Engineering, but they never went into >production. As usual, internal communications were poor, and when the >decision was made to drop the mechanical unit, nobody told the service >department. By the time we found out, the manual was already at the printer. >We did the best we could--got one of the Saginaw power steering units, and >put out a manual on it........."