On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Henry Schaffer wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:30:14 -0500 > From: Henry Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: Re: "Political Correctness" goes mad in L.A. County (USA) > > Phil writes: > >It is used, for instance, in automotive engineering. A car with > >hydraulic brakes - pretty well every car built since the early 1920s - > >has a "master" cylinder attached to the pedal and "slave" cylinders on > >each wheel hub. The same applies, of course, to hydraulic clutches. > > For brakes, the terminology I've learned in the USA for brakes is > master and "wheel" cylinders. I don't remember seeing a "slave" used > for a wheel cylinder. I did a quick search of Google Groups, and > scanned the first 50 hits for "slave cylinder" - and they were all (or > nearly) about clutch slave cylinders.
Google gives different results depending on where you are, so I tried too and got the same sort of result. However, I added "brake" to the expression and went from 66000 hits down to 54000 and the word brake figuring promintly in the extracts. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
