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A steam wagon (or steam lorry, steam waggon or steamtruck) is a steam-powered truck for carrying freight. It was the earliest form of lorry (truck) and came in two basic forms: overtype and undertype , the distinction being the position of the engine relative to the boiler .
Alley & MacLellan's early steam wagon was so successful that it remained in production with relatively few updates until the launch of Sentinel's famous Super in 1923. The company also produced steam railway locomotives and railcars, for railway companies and industrial customers. In 1917, the company was bought by William Beardmore and Company.
Edward S Clark made several experimental steam-powered wagons in Boston before in 1900 he began manufacturing steam cars at Dorchester. His steam engine was a horizontally-opposed 20 hp 4 cylinder engines of 20 hp which was centrally mounted and had the flash boiler located at the front. He also made steam-powered delivery wagons. [31] [63 ...
The Ware Steam Wagon was the first self-propelled American vehicle to be manufactured for export, [citation needed] produced from 1861 to 1867 by Elijah Ware of Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1866 one of his vehicles was shipped to Rustico, Prince Edward Island , where it had been ordered by Catholic priest Georges-Antoine Belcourt .
Overall the company produced around 120 overtype steam wagons between 1911 and 1928. [35] Two wagons supplied were fitted with a dynamo and full showman's fittings, works numbers 3843 "The Lion" and 3883 "Electra", in 1939 this second wagon was totally destroyed in a Nazi bombing raid over Plymouth. [36]
The Traction Engine Register records the details of traction engines, steam road rollers, steam wagons, steam fire engines and portable engines that are known to survive in the United Kingdom and Irish Republic. It recorded 2,851 self moving engines and wagons, 687 portable engines (non-self moving), 160 steam fire engines existing in 2016.
Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Ltd Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908 [2] Brown & May, Devizes, Wiltshire [3] Charles Burrell & Sons, Thetford, Norfolk – (MERL database entry) Clayton & Shuttleworth, Lincoln – (MERL database entry) Edwin Foden, Sons & Co., Sandbach, Cheshire; Durham and North Yorkshire Steam Cultivation Company Ltd
Garrett Six Wheeled tipping wagon 35464 of 1931. The company produced steam wagons of both the undertype and overtype configurations. Their first steam wagons were three relatively unsuccessful undertypes constructed between 1904 and 1908.