New Plans for Buda Engine Sales and Service
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MEGOTIATIONS have recently been completed whereby I 'Auto Diesels, Ltd., 246, Great Portland Street, London, W.1, will handle Buda power units (other than marine types) in Great Britain and Ireland. British India and British Africa. Not only will this concern hold an extensive stock of spares for current types of petrol and oil engine, but it can supply the needs for replacements of older patterns. A 3-ton vehicle with four-cylindered oil engine will soon be available for demonstration.
The Buda range of oil engines extends from 40 b.h.p. to well over 230 b.h.p.; in the accompanying table we give details of the five sizes which are of the greatest interest for use in British commercial vehicles. A compression ratio of rather under 13 to 1 gives low peak pressures. A wet sump oiling system is adopted, with full presure throughout, even the gudgeon pins being thus supplied via drilled connecting rods. Aluminium-alloy pistons work in " dry " interchangeable cylinder sleeves. Gears are used for distribution purposes, one of the driven items being the crankcase-mounted camshaft which operates the two valves per cylinder by push rods. Electrical equipment operates at 24 volts pressure. The cylinder block and crankcase top half are cast in chrome-nickel iron.