Sale 2443 Lot 292

(INDUSTRY--DIESEL ENGINES)
Album with 90 photographs documenting the Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
With various views of impressively vast engines being pieced together by skilled workmen; images showing other aspects of engine component manufacture and production; as well as scenes of the factory interior showing workspaces completely filled with engine blocks and various other mechanical parts. There are also views of Busch-Sulzer diesel engines successfully installed at numerous other company plants. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and the reverse, some with a company hand stamp, and others with typed or handwritten captions, in pencil and ink, on verso. Oblong 4to, brown leatherette with gilt lettering and a triple-bolt binding; boards soiled and brittle. 1914-20


Estimate $1,500 - 2,500

Busch-Sulzer Bros. was founded by Adolphus Busch of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company in 1911. Busch was an early proponent for the use of diesel engines in the United States. In 1898 he acquired the sole rights to build diesel engines in the U.S. with the consultation of a German man by the name of Rudolph Diesel. Busch-Sulzer Bros went on to manufacture engines for the first L-class submarines used by the U.S. Navy in World War I and continued to manufacture engines through World War II.