Talk:Vulcan (motor vehicles)

Vulcan-Sinclair fluid transmission
The following paragraph refers not to the subject of this article but to Deschimag Werk Vulcan-Hamburg. The Vulcan concerned was Vulcan-Werke of Hamburg who built submarines and ships and accordingly had a special interest in fluid transmission.

"During 1924, Hermann Rieseler invented the first automatic transmission, which had two-speed planetary gearbox, torque converter, and lockup clutch; it never entered production.[1] (The less-sophisticated Hydra-Matic, which used a simple fluid coupling, would only become an available option on Oldsmobiles in 1940.)[2]"

Reiseler's patent here Hydraulic change-speed and reversing gear states that he is of Hamburg Germany

"It was about 1908 when Dr. Bauer, director of the marine engine section of his firm with a seat on the board, came to Hamburg to the new Vulcan shipyard and engine works, which had been laid out near Hamburg on the River Elbe. One of his first jobs was to supervise the designs for the propelling machinery of the new Hamburg America express liner, "Imperator," which had just been ordered. That. ship was completed in 1913 and was, we may recall, a 52,000-ton liner with propelling machinery of 80,000 s.h.p. on four screws. She was the first of a series of giant German liners, and served as a type ship, for the construction of the later liners "Vaterland" and "Bismarck," which were built by Blohm and Voss, of Hamburg. After the first world war, Dr. Bauer was intimately concerned with the further development of the Fottinger hydraulic transmitter under the names of "Vulcan-Coupling" and "Vulcan-Drive" at the Vulcan Works at Hamburg. This type of drive was successfully used for both naval ships and merchant vessels. In England it was developed in collaboration with Mr. Harold Sinclair as the Vulcan-Sinclair coupling by the Fluidrive Engineering Company, Ltd., of Isleworth, mainly for automobile and industrial applications. Vulcan couplings totalling over 200 million horsepower have now been constructed."
 * obituary Bauer

So I have deleted the paragraph. Eddaido (talk) 01:17, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And put a new one here AG Vulcan Stettin. Eddaido (talk) 06:27, 10 October 2015 (UTC)