Syracuse: First in Manual Shift

There were horseless carriages before 1900, and there were any number of creative ideas to overcome the rev limitations of internal combustion, too. But if your automotive startup needed a gearbox you designed it and built it yourself. Which meant that, when it came to gearboxes, each entrepreneur was re-inventing the wheel. If only automotive gearboxes were designed by
professional gearbox engineers, built in volume (relatively speaking!) and offered commercially as ‘off-the-shelf’ products. Obviously, it happened. And whether it was Brown-Lipe or New Process Rawhide that did it first, it happened in Syracuse, New York. AutoGear wasn’t around then. We’ve only been building automotive gearboxes since 1982. But we’re still designing them. And each one proudly wears the name of our hometown — Syracuse — first in manual shift.