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Buescher's bottom-sprung "Pin" valves. You can see the "pin" on the left-most valve, at the top; it's a small lug milled or brazed onto side of the valve. It fits into a groove cut into the side of the valve's wall.
These have been pulled from a 1935 "Aristocrat Custom Built" Model 235 trumpet.
Lamp built in semitransparent material with steel brushed base featuring a small planet picture of night scene from Empire State Building. Energy saving 15 W incandescent bulb for a romantic mood. Silver transparent electric chord with elegant black foot/hand switch. 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. Diameter of translucent piture ca. 4''. Uses this image. See all other pictures possible in this model.
Ron Cravens with Dad's first place-winning Class XII home-built trailer and custom-restored Gold Wing at Wing Ding XVII, presented by the Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRAA),1995 in Greenville, South Carolina; this is following that award, in the Christmas parade in Henderson, Kentucky that same year. The corvette trailer top popped up and the luggage went inside. It got a lot of attention, needless to say. Here is an even better photo.
The shop decided to leave the grab irons their respective colour and not paint them white. The crew gives the unit a couple of coats of dullcoat to protect the paint and decals bringing it all together.
Photo- Jeff Semper
Buescher's Bell, Triangle and Tuning Fork "True-Tone" logo, stamped on the third valve case. Buescher had used that logo since about the 1910s.
The Aristocrat Custom Built horns were engraved with a more elaborate pattern than on the base line Aristocrat model trumpets. They are all engraved in an Art-Deco inspired pattern; a style Buescher started using in the early '30s.
1934 Ford Truck built ground up by Ed Riley of Crosby,Tx. This truck has 350 hp LS1 Chevy Motor and weighs 2500. There is a Custom Built Pro-Street Frame with a 9" Ford Rearend and a Kuggel Front end. The truck was built to drive on the street, go to the Car Shows, and just have fun.
I don't know what happened to the leadpipe, whether it got dinged very hard or suffered bad enough corrosion to eat through the metal. It's patched in three different places.
Note the hefty nickel-silver brace and it's two large feet, one of them soldered directly to the receiver.
Here again you can see remnants of Buescher's opaque "gold" lacquer on the valve block, slide, brace and receiver.
The Model 235's bell-tail taper is long and gradual; the taper on the Aristocrat horns was similar but perhaps a little tighter. The flare out to the bell's rim, here and on the Aristocrat, starts out pretty close to the bell's mouth. Both models seem to have been designed to deliver a compact, focused tone.
The Model 232 Aristocrat bell diameter measured to 4.25"; I'm not sure of the the Model 235's diameter. I'll have to measure it!!
Note how the main tuning slide is canted to the left, and the nickel-silver components used in the slide assemblies. It's interesting that Buescher sprayed lacquer over the nickel-silver horn components - but that appears to have been standard practice for Buescher.
In 1967 the Ministry of Transport commissioned a fleet of seven custom-built Bedford vehicles to go around the country promoting British production techniques. Only one bus survives and it took the current owner Ollie Halls five years to retore the mobile cinema to it's pristine condition. The Vintage Mobile Cinema seats 22 in comfort and has a state-of-the-art HD digital projection unit. Above the cab there is ( for the 1960's ) a futuristic-looking clear Perspex dome.
More images from the visit can be seen on my website www.fozimage.com/fozlogs-20110219.htm
The Model 215 was loaded with Buescher's bottom-sprung "Pin" style valves, similar to the valves Buescher had been using in the Aristocrat and Custom Built models since the 1930s.
Instead of being guided by a "star" type guide at the top of the valve, there is a lug milled into the side of the valve itself that fits into a groove cut into the valve casing's inside wall.
Buescher's pin valves seem to be very durable; I've played a number of Buescher's Custom-Built horns from the '30s that were in physically terrible shape - except for the valves!!
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.
The Model 235's Main Slide and Third Valve Slide.
Note that nickel-silver is used in all the slide assemblies' tubing.
Note also he locking ring on the main slide's lower stretch of tubing.
Finally, note the gold lacquer's opaque quality, quite apparent when contrasted against nickel silver .
The unit gets a new bell, horn and antennae. The shop decides to relocate the bell further down the long hood in the middle of the CN noodle as it will interfere with the door operation and be too noisy for the crew.
Photo- Jeff Semper