Parcelcarriers a Feature of the Show.
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GERMAN users appear to have a great partiality for the
light-load carrier, of which large numbers are to be seen in the streets of the chief cities, so it is natural that many types are to be found at the Fair. Most of them are of three-wheeled pattern, but they differ considerably in their design, some iriving on the two Wheels of the carrier at the rear and Waving a forward portion closely akin to that of the moth-1.0'61e; others have a single driving wheel behind, whilst one or two carry the engine over the front wheel.
One neat little carrier of the four-wheeled pattern is the ,Ansbach, which has an air-cooled, twin-cylindered V engine at the front, the cooling being assisted by a blower flywheel and cowls over the cylinders, although, curiously enough, these were not at the valve side. The chassis has a central steering wheel with worm gear, but in the actual motrel shoWn the wheel was slightly offset. The gearbox is slung wider a pressed-steel cross-member and in the same casing with it, although separated by a partition, is a plate clutch having a." Nike nuthber of spiral compression springs. There is• a small extert11-ciantracting transmission brake of the band tylle operated by a lever arranged horizontally and wOrking in a vertical quadrant.
Behind the gearbox is a propeller shaft having ti laminated steel coupling at the front end and a Hardy disc at the rear end, the final drive being by a neat underneath worm. The axle/centre is formed as a drum with the cover at one side. The internal-expanding rear brakes are controlled by a pedal. A' pedal starter projects from the side of the chassis.The driver sits very low in a well, the framewok of which can be seen in our illustration of the chassis. This vehicle' will carry 10 cwt., and in one example shown the body was arranged for carrying 20 milk churns.
• Conspicuous amongst these light-load vehicles is the BudgeWhitworth 'sidecar outfit with a body .arranged for carrying meat, etc. Connected to this machine is a large-capacity "trailer on two wheels.
The Krauseco. is a machine embodying a J.A.P. motor and a Sturmey-Archer gearbox, both of English manufacture. It is constructed by Ernst Krause 21.G. to carry 12 cwt.
Tir; engine is a single-cylindered four-stroke-cycle type and drives through the gearbox to the rear wheels. The tubular frame is well constructed and is arranged with two bucket seats in line, the change-speed lever being mounted just in front of the forward seat. Semi-elliptic springs are employed for the front wheels and cantilevers for that at the rear. which has a hand brake. Front-wheel brakes are also employed. , The Rollfix is a machine of somewhat curious appearance, this being chiefly due to the unusual form of canopy supplied to protect the driver. In many other respects it resembles the Goliath, details of which we recently published, and which machine was also staged. Two seats of the motorcycle standard type are mounted over the casing covering the upper part of the rear wheel.
The engine is of the two-stroke-cycle pattern cooled by a fan flywheel and taking the drive through a gearbox,
In the D.K.W. a two-stroke-cycle engine with a single cylinder is arranged over the front wheel, with the, cylinder faking forwards. A chain takes the drive through a mulitpleplate clutch and gearbox of the motorcycle type to a large chain wheel.
It is claimed that this machine can deal easily with 8-ewt. loads.
The Zundapp has a motorcycle front, but the drive is taken by a single 'chain to a countershaft, from which separate chains drive the rear wheels. Adjustment of the main driving chain is effected by a jockey pulley. Power is provided by a small single-eylindered engine of the two-strokecycle pattern. Each of the rear wheels is carried in a frame fulcramed at its front end and supported,at the rear between a powerful load-carrying spring and a lighter rebound spring, both of them being of the coil compression type.
Another three-wheeler resembling that which has just been described is the Mammut, which is made in two engine sies, 350 c.c. and 500 c.c., whilst the smaller engine can be either of the two-stroke or four-stroke-cycle type. Here, again, there is a main driving chain to a countershaft and chains from the ends of these to the rear wheels.
A J.A.P. engine is also employed in the Monos three-wheeler, which is quite a nicely built machine with
car steering, quarter-elliptic rear springs, semi-elliptic front springs, and a seat of the semi-bucket type. This is of fairly large capacity, being capable of carrying 10 cwt. It has a gearbox of the Sturmey-Archer type equipped with a multipledisc clutch and ,kick-starter, the drive being taken to the 'single rear wheel. The arrangement of the steering gear is somewhat unusual, the main column being vertical, whilst the wheel is carried on a subsidiary column arranged at an angle of about 60 degrees from the vertical. The 10-cwt. Steigboy is also arranged, to seat two persons on seats of the saddle type. It closely resembles the Monos, the steering in this ease also being arranged with the main column in a vertical casing, but, in this instance, the wheel itself is also practically vertical. It has a 500 c.c. engine cooled by air blast, a gearbox affording three speeds and provided -with a kick-starter and a multiple-plate clutch, the drive being taken to the unSprung single rear wheel.