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The 'Queerbox' was the nickname for an early sequential manual transaxle used by Lotus racing cars of the late-1950s and early-1960s, and was very similar in design and operation to a motorcycle gearbox. It was infamously unreliable.

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Queerbox

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The 'Queerbox' was the nickname for an early sequential manual transaxle used by Lotus racing cars of the late-1950s and early-1960s, and was very similar...

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Sequential manual transmission

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Porsche Type 360 Cisitalia in 1946, followed by the infamously unreliable Queerbox design, pioneered by Richard Ansdale and Harry Mundy, which was used in...

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Lotus 18

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combined with ZF limited-slip differential, had gained the nickname "Queerbox", or "Gearbox-full of neutrals" for its poor reliability. With Duckworth...

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2024 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco

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qualified third, only to fall victim to his Lotus 16's notoriously unreliable "queerbox": the car became stuck in gear and stalled on the grid, with all drivers...

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Lotus 12

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a (long-undiagnosed) oil starvation problem, thus earned the nickname "Queerbox" for its unreliability. Although the first two examples of Lotus 12 had...

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Lotus 15

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Prix racing, mated to Lotus' own 5 speed sequential transaxle nicknamed 'Queerbox'. It was designed in 1957, and the production began in late 1957. The spaceframe...

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Lotus 19

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Prix cars, mated to Lotus' own five-speed sequential transaxle nicknamed 'Queerbox' which gave a lot of problems on the Lotus 15, but was improved in its...

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Keith Duckworth

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working for Lotus as a gearbox engineer. Given the task of fixing the 'Queerbox's' unreliability problems, he fell out with Chapman who would not support...

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Lotus 16

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proved troublesome and gained itself the derogatorily punning nickname "queerbox". However, in 1957 Chapman had hired Keith Duckworth (later to find fame...

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