Buessing : Stand 78.
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LIST OF 1.30-EssiNG COmmEnCIAL
78] MODELS. [78 Load. H.P. Drive. Price (a)
2 tons 25 Chain 3 „ 35 4 „ :15 51 5 40 11 _ * Example staged at Olympia.
The name of this German maker is at once recognized by many of those who are at the present time interested in the industrial-vehicle movement. It may be recalled that Buessing buses were amongst the most successful to be operated in the earlier stormy days of passenger-vehicle motor transport in London. Until the present tune, however, there has been no renewed campaign to sell these machines in this country. The German factory turns out a very complete list of models, and the one example staged at Olympia serves well to demonstrate the type of construction which is characteristic of the house. It is a five-tonner with a 40 h.p. engine, and the chassis is of German subsidized type. It is interesting to note that it is the only model which is subsidized by Hungary, and is also approved by the Governments of Austria, Prussia and Bavaria. The engine still retains the early Buessing design of overhead valves ; they are now inclined. The vertical spiral gear-shaft drive is also in evidence. A mechanical lubricator is driven from the after-end of the overhead camshaft. A large coned leather clutch drives by means of a long propeller shaft to a combined gearbox and differential, which combines provision for four speeds. The final drive is by big side chains. The suspension is particularly ingenious : the front springs are aided by additional coil springs fore and aft. The back springs carry the weight on a combined arrangement of rollers and pivots. The spring-mounted radius rod is a long-standing characteristic of
Buessing design. The body on this model is particularly interesting, and is divided into two compartments which may be tipped individually sideways to the off side The Salmon Motor Co. [STAND 781
Two useful little delivery vans are shown by the Salmon Motor Co., one of these with very roomy body, is intended for loads of 4 cwt. and notwithstanding its low price of £125, it, is equipped with a four-cylinder, water cooled monobloe engine, which transmits the drive through a cone clutch and a neat little change-speed gearbox, and thence by a single chain to the live back axle. Altogether it is a most usefut little outfit for the small tradesman, The other exhibit on this stand is intended for 7 cwt. loads, and is offered at the price of .2175 complete with box-van body. It also has a four-cylinder, water-cooled monobloe engine, cone clutch, change-speed gearbox, and worm drive to the live back axle. The bodies on both these machines are well-finished and cleanly designed, and the interest shown by many visitors can quite easily be understood after examination of the models shoWn. ,This exhibitor was one of the last to enter the Olympia. list, and so was not inch:tiled in our
first Show issue. .