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Advanced Straussier Products
Page 92
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WITH long experience in the buildVV ing of military tractors and armoured cars, Straussler Mechanization, Ltd., 70, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1, is a new entrant to the commercial manufacturing side of the industry. We have already announced certain of its plans, which may be regarded almost as revolutionary, and described
two of its products. (See issues of The Commercial Motor dated October 4 and October 18.)
These two are a maximum-load eight-wheeler with independent suspenc50 siou and front-wheel drive, and a 30-cwt. machine of the mechanicalhorse type. The latter vehicle differs from those now well known in having two steering wheels at the front, spaced wide apart, and its two driving wheels (roughly below the semi-trailer king-pin) arranged close together. It incorporates a Ford 8 h.p. or 10 h.p. engine, gearbox and back axle parts.
The company has also already built three different-sized tractors, of novel construction equipped with pneumatic tyres, and driving through all four wheels, and has nearly completed the first of a production four-wheeler which, without a shadow of doubt, will create a great stir when it appears before the public.
This machine will fall in the 2i-ton unladen-weight class, but will have a load capacity of 7 tons. It is, of course, of quite unorthodox construction, incorporating a central-backbonetype frame, independently mounted wheels and a drive to all wheels. It will be fully described in this paper shortly.