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We recieved today the final welded components for the first time and oput everything next to each other to see how large the whole thing will be! One word: Enormous!
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp Chevy LS1 Motor and weighs 2500. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
After World War II Buescher stopped stamping the classic Bell and Triangle True-Tone logo on its instruments.
After the war instruments are stamped with this simpler "Buescher True-Tone" logo. This design had been around in print advertisements and catalogs since the 1930s.
The "LP" stands for "Low Pitch" indicating that the horn is made to play in American concert pitch where concert A=440 Hz.
I'm a little surprised they still bothered stamping that on their horns when this was made, as the low pitch standard had become pretty much universal by 1950.
This horn was made in about 1949 and was probably introduced a few years earlier.
This was probably the standard Custom Built model Buescher offered at the time; I've seen several of them. However, it may be a variation on the standard with a different bore size or other components.
However it's clearly designed around what would be Buescher's common post-war theme, in that it's wrapped in conventional trumpet dimensions rather than the long tightly-wrapped configurations the earlier Aristocrat and Custom Built horns were built in.
Compare this horn to the picture sets of the 1944 Aristocrat and then refer to the sets of the pre-war Models 234, 235 and 220 horns; you'll see that the newer horns are designed in simpler, sparer more modern style.