Abstract:
There is disclosed a transmission control linkage for a multispeed transmission having gearing and shiftable elements that are operable on selective shifting to establish different transmission drives through the gearing. The shiftable elements are controlled by shift fork levers with a detent mechanism operating to prevent movement of one of the shift fork levers when the other lever is not in its neutral position. A sequence mechanism cooperates with the detent mechanism to lock one of the shift fork levers against movement from one of its shift positions to a previously selected shift position until after the other shift fork lever has been moved from neutral to one of its shift positions to assure certain sequential shifting.