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Stanley from Cars, Cars 2, and the Cars Toons short "Time Travel Mater" is a Stanley Steamer. Another Stanley Steamer appears in the 1965 film The Great Race starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, with Natalie Wood as the driver of the car. And a Stanley Steamer appears in the 2003 film Seabiscuit. Boston Red Sox pitcher Bob Stanley was ...
Artillery wheel for a motorcar. Wood-spoke artillery wheels were used on early automobiles, as a stronger alternative to wire wheels. [5] By the 1920s, many motor cars used wheels that looked at a glance like wooden artillery wheels, but which were of cast steel or welded from steel pressed sections. These too were usually called artillery wheels.
The vehicle weighed about 2.5 tonnes tare, and 2.8 tonnes full, and had two wheels at the rear and one in the front where the horses would normally have been. The front wheel supported a steam boiler and driving mechanism. The power unit was articulated to the "trailer", and was steered from there by means of a double handle arrangement.
Hancock's boiler and wheels were the two main lasting designs from that period with there being relatively little change between his boiler and that of some of the earliest steam cars of the 1900s. He is also credited with inventing the basic design of Artillery Wheel for use on his carriage. Chenab 15:12, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
The engine ran at 350 rpm and had a governor which operated by cutting the fuel supply in a hit and miss method, though the driver could override the governor for "spurts". The framing was of conventional steam traction engine type, with rear wheels 7 foot diameter, the front wheels 42 inches diameter. The cylinders were each 13 inch diameter ...
White steam touring car (1909) Stanley Steamer (1912) A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine.A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE).
Instead of looking like a steam car it resembled a small locomotive. It consisted of a steam engine mounted on three wheels: two large driven rear wheels and one smaller front wheel by which the vehicle was steered. The weight of the machine was 1.5 tonnes and somewhat lighter than Rickett's steam car.
In 1906, he set the world land speed record at 127.659 mph (205.5 km/h) at the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanley Land Speed Record Car. [2] [3] This garnered Stanley Motor Carriage Company the Dewar Trophy. A crew of four accompanied the car to Daytona, Marriott was chosen to be driver because he was the only bachelor. [4] An ...