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Originally Posted by Adam
The transmission is a 4 speed auto called a Hydramatic with was also used in GM cars.
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Your Lincoln has the same transmission my 47 Oldsmobile has....The hydramatic was a GM invention that was introduced in 1940 on Oldsmobile and Cadillac, and post war quickly was adopted by Pontiac. If was the first successful fully automatic transmission. During WWII some tanks were powered by 2 hydramatic Cadillac V8 drive trains. Post was everyone with an automatic except Packard bought GM hydramatics.... until the main plant burned in 1953 and non-GM makes had to switch to borg-warner or design their own....GM had to use dynaflows and powerglides* on some senior brands to fill in the gap.
*Buick never used the hydramatic as they thought it wasn't smooth enough, and Chevrolet never adopted it because they thought 4 years was too complex and expensive so those divisions developed the Dynaflow and powerglide respectively.