First Automotive Automatic Transmission. It's called the hydra matic and it was introduced for. Available as an option in cars such as the.
Oldsmobile had marketed the first fully automatic transmissions, called hydramatic, in selected 1940 models. The history of the automatic transmission started way back in the 1930s with the general motors company’s introduction of the “automatic safety transmission.”. In 1939 cadillac and oldsmobile became the first manufacturers to utilize a fully automatic transmission in a production.
The first automobile model to use an automatic transmission was the 1948 oldsmobile.
By 1990, the 4 speed automatic was virtually ubiquitous and had seen few changes in 15 years besides the addition of electronic control. This unit had two forward speeds, the ratio change being brought about by flyweights that were driven by the engine. It's called the hydra matic and it was introduced for. Jumping forward to the 1920s, we find a genuine claimant to the title of being the inventor of the first automatic gearbox.