DYNAMOS-AXLES-TAXIMETERS-ALUMINIUM CASTINGS.
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Brown Bros., Ltd.
Head Office : 22-34, Gt. Eastern Street, London, E.C.
" Everything for the Motorist at Home and Overseas" is a term which can be adequately applied to this London house. A perusal of the well-got-up catalogue which the company issues will place the automobile engineer in a position to satisfy his most exacting requirements ie the matter of all kinds of machine-tool plant, grinding outfits, pulley blocks and hoists, electric dynamos and rnotors, circular, band and hack-saws for metal cutting, forges for the repair shop, all kinds of soldering fluxes, etc., etc.
The concern also makes a speciality of marketing all the best types of electrical accessories and pipe fittings necessary for machines driven by either internal-combustion or steam engines. With the advent of heavy classes of fuels which are at the present time being used to a considerable extent in internalcombustion engines, Brown Bros., Ltd., is showing its up-todate policy by marketing a very simple form of decarbonizing tool with which it is possible to remove all detrimental products of combustion in the cylinders without any dismantling having to be done other than the removal of the valve caps. A decarbonizing powder compound, termed Cacao, is of interest in the same direction. " Raybestos brake-lining is another speciality. This fabric is perfectly pliable and well resists the action of oil, water and heat. It is meeting with a big demand in the U.S.A.
David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd. Works : Lockwood, Huddersfield. London Office : 34, Old Bond Street, London, W. Now that efficient worm-gear construction is thoroughly understood by gear specialists, the advantages of its application to industrial vehicles are being more fully recognized than hitherto.
D.B.S. worm-gearing has a first-class reputation which is the outcome of upwards tef 20 years of experience. Many of its own patented worm-cutting devices are installed in its machine shops for generating worm-gear which shall give a maximum of efficient service under all working conditions. Special applications of worm-gear drives will be given attention by the undertaking, which employs specialists for this matter, and all inquiries, accompanied with necessary data, will be treated as strictly confidential. In the D.B.S. system of worm-wheel generation, a special form of milling-cutter is used which is of such a form that its contour and cutting face is not diminished each time the tool is reground. Customers therefore arc ensured of being supplied with gears in quantity which are absolutely interchangeable. Strictness, here, is all important. A special form of alloy is used in the construction of the D.B.S. worm-wheels in order to ensure obtaining as smooth, yet as durable, a working surface as possible. All gears are ground perfectly true before being dispatched.
Buck and Hickman, Ltd.
Head Office and Works : 2, Whitechapel Road, London, E.
Manufacturers and users who are considering the question of machine-tool installation would do well to get in touch with this London house. In addition to the leading types of English-built machine tools, Buck and Hickman, Ltd., is sole British agent for many of the high-class American pro ductions turned out by sucti well-known firms as : The Brown and Sharp Manufacturing Co., the Bullard Machine Tool Co., the Pratt Whitnew Co., the Gleason Works, the Foote-Burt Co., the American Tool Works Go., the Fitchbourg Machine Works, and others. Buck and Hickman, Ltd., also carries a big stock of small tools, ready for immediate dispatch.
Bruhn's Taxameter, Ltd.
Head Office and Works : 245, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.
Bruhn's taximeter was the first, and it is consequently the oldest, form of fare indicator which has proved a success'Irom the beginning of its career. The universal application of this company's recording device is evidenced by the fact that it is being used on machines all over the world.
The Bruhn taximeter can, of course, be adapted for any country and any coinage. When, however, placing an order from Overseas it is as well to give the following details :—Make of machine, size of tires, number of spokes in nearside front wheel, and the tariff required, i.e., charge per hour and the unit of increase required. Full particulars are supplied with each outfit, describing how to fit up and maintain the apparatus.
In addition to this speciality, the company also markets mileage recorders suitable for fitting to the dashboard and also those of the hub-cap type adapted for fitting to the front wheel.
The life of the 13ruhn taximeter transmission is practically of indefinite period if properly fitted in the first instance, and care has been taken to use only the best quality of steel in the spare drive, whilst the driving flex is of very high-grade construction, affording long service with but little attention.
The Bruhn taximeter.
R. W. Goan.
Head Office and Works : 219, Goswell Road, London, E.C.
Practically every automobile engineer is acquainted with the phrase Goan casts clean crankcases." It. is generally recognized that the component parts of an engine or chassis incorporating aluminium in their structure manufactured by R. NI'. Coan are of a consistently high-class quality
The more-conventional designs of crankcases, gearboxes, sundry brackets, and other parts which have done much to bring the commercial motor to the front, are amongst the daily productions of this aluminium specialist.
A big range of patterns is kept in stock, which enables this maker to turn nut castings in very reasonable time, and an expert staff of pattern makers is at hand to cope with special requirements.