The original horizontal-engined Falcon H had a layout recalling that of the Bristol RE with the longitudinally-mounted Gardner engine driving forward above the Dennis-built portal rear axle to a Voith gearbox and reversing unit which then took drive rearward into the driving-head of the axle.
Voelter and Voith sold grindstones to paper manufacturers in the whole world, including the Kübler und Niethammer paper factory in Kriebstein in Saxony.
Coaches were built by Rotem and specialist diesel-hydraulic power packs were built by MTU Friedrichshafen (engine) and Voith (transmission system).
The turbines themselves were built by J.M. Voight (now Voith AG), of Heidenheim, Germany, while the alternators themselves were built by Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), of Berlin.
The first turbo-transmission was developed in 1932 by Voith in Heidenheim, Germany.