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4th June 1914, Page 18
4th June 1914
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Worm Drives and Chain Gearboxes for New German Daimlers. Double-' deck Daimlers in Vienna with Covered Tops. Ambulances in Berlin.

From Our Own Correspondents in Berlin and Vienna.

A Benz Triple-tank Wagon.

For the Spanish War Office the Benz Gesellschaft have produced a triple-tank wagon, which we illustrate. The forward tank is for oil, the middle one for petrol, and the remaining one for water. Sightgauges revealing the amount of fluid in each tank are provided, as well as pumps for filling. The engine is a four-cylinder one of 50 hp., with an extra-large radiator.

British Models in Odessa.

Amongst the commercial vehicles of Continental origin in Odessa, there are 25 of German and French make, and a few of Swiss manufacture: Benz, Buessing, Unic, Bernet and Arbenz are the principal types. There is undoubtedly a splendid market for British-built models in Odessa, providing Russian business methods can be approximated.

Post Automobiles in Servia.

The Servian Government recently decided to introduce Post automobiles to connect the town of Monastir to the .state railway system, thus avoiding the circuitous route via Salonica. A Belgrade concern of financiers which has taken up this matter has now ordered nine cars from Laurin and Klement, Ltd., of Jungbunzlau, Bohemia, as machines from its factory had given such excellent service in Montenegro, where for the last four years they have yielded great satisfaction on the truly awful roads of that extremely mountainous country.

This order means the opening of a new field in the Balkans, where there is every prospect of a great future for motor vehicles generally. n4 Motor Ambulances in Berlin.

According to the report of the Berlin First-aid Association, during the past year 6735 of the total 16,742 cases were dealt with by automobiles, the public evincing an increasing preference for the selfpropelled vehicle. Reckoning with this tendency, the association is buying an additional motor wagon, also another motor tricar. In our 30th April issue we recorded that Berlin Corporation has no motor ambulances of its own.

Latin America's Checked Demand.

A heavy decline in the shipment to the Argentine Republic and Brazil is responsible for the quieter tone that is prevailing in the German commercial-motor-vehicle industry. The latest returns available are those for the two months ending with February last, during which period only 107 vehicles, valued at £67,900, were exported from Germany, as compared with 147 and £98,550 in the corresponding two months of 1913. The demand on Russian account is being well maintained, that country being responsible for over 30 per cent. of the shipments.

Berlin's "Feeding" Motorbus Lines.

For the purpose of working their motorbus "feeding" lines,the Berlin Elevated-cum-Underground Electric Railway has formed a limited sub-compan,y, called the " Hochbalm-Omnibus-Gesellschaft," with a capital of 200,000 marks. Attention was recently called by us to the new enterprise of the company working Berlin's electric railways. The first two lines will be in all likelihood inaugurated about the commencement of May. Neither concern having anything to do with the Corporation, British firms might have a. chance of supplying vehicles or acoessories.

On page 272 of the 21st ult., we illustrate the new chassis and describe some of its more interesting constructional features ; it is wormdriven and has a chain gearbox.


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