Orders were also received for use by the Deutsche Antarktische Expedition. In 1914 Wolseley produced a two-wheeled gyroscopically balanced car for the Russian lawyer and inventor Count Peter Schilowsky. This resembled a huge motorcycle surmounted by a car body, but with the ability to balance when stationary due to the gyroscopic stabilisation mechanism. It made a number of demonstration runs, but unfortunately with the onset of war it was put to one side. It was discovered again in 1938 when workmen uncovered its well preserved remains in the Ward End property of Wolseley. It was then transferred into the Wolseley Museum. Commercial vehicles From 1912 lorries and other commercial vehicles were supplied. Until the outbreak of war in 1914 Wolseley offered six types of commercial vehicle from 12 cwt delivery van to a five-ton lorry with a 40 hp engine. Wolseley Motors Limited 1914 By 1913 Wolseley was Britain's largest car manufacturer selling 3,000 cars. The company was renamed Wolseley Motors Limited in 1914. It also began operations in Montreal and Toronto as Wolseley Motors Limited. This became British and American Motors after the First World War. In January 1914 the chairman, Sir Vincent Caillard, told shareholders they owned probably the largest motor-car producing company in the country and that its factory floor space now exceeded 17 acres. First World War Entering wartime as Britain's largest car manufacturer Wolseley initially contracted to provide cars for staff officers and ambulances. Government soon indicated their plant might be better used for supplies more urgently needed. Postwar the chairman, Sir Vincent Caillard, was able to report Wolseley had provided, quantities are approximate: 3,600 motorcars and lorries including the equivalent in spare parts 4,900 aeronautical engines including the equivalent in spare parts 760 aeroplanes 600 sets aeroplane spare wings and tailplanes 6,000 airscrews of various types Director firing gear for 27 battleships, 56 cruisers and 160 flotilla leaders and destroyers 1,200 naval gun mountings and sights 10 transmission mechanisms for rigid airships 2,650,000 18-pounder shells 300,000 Stokes's bombs Aero engines produced in wartime included: Renault eight and twelve-cylinder Vee-type "Maybach" six-cylinder water-cooled 180 hp developed from a Maybach Zeppelin engine The Dragonfly nine-cylinder air-cooled radial Boucier fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial Hispano designed V8 known as the Viper. By 1918 sixty of these engine were being produced each week Airship engines for the British Admiralty The Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade's Field Ambulance developed an operating car,