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Even if you never heard about the German company Pulse this may be of interest to you. Especially if you are a fan of the British Wilson or French Cotal preselector gearboxes. This is what Peter Meyer wrote us:
"A few days ago I had a phone call from Dr. Chr. Puls, managing director of the company "Puls-Getriebe" in Karlsruhe, South Germany, who is the 3rd generation to lead the company.
He came up with a very interesting story: his grandfather E.F. Puls founded the company in 1926 and designed semi-automatic and pre-selection gearboxes for cars, trucks and buses (for Dixi, Maybach Vomag, Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Büssing, Wanderer and Horch to name a few). In 1932 he moved to Birmingham/England and worked for Austin, Morris and Wolseley, designing preselector boxes for several cars from Austin, Morris and for the Wolseley Twelve Six. More details are to be found on the company's history page (in German).
A very interesting part is the 1932-1935 period, when the Puls articles about Wolesley 12/6 in "The Motor" (Aug. 1934) and "The Light Car"(Jan. 1935) were published.
This year the Puls-Getriebe will celebrate ist 90 anniversary and Mr. Puls is planning to publish a book about the full history of the company. He asked me to dive even further into the history and to write a Chapter regarding the inventions of his grandfather. I visited him recently and found he has piles of original drawings from his grandfather, including some of his work in the UK!
I am now trying to find out more about the gearboxes that were built and hope to find an owner of a car equipped with a Puls gearbox or maybe even somebody who has a Puls-Box somewhere on his shelf."