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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 ...
Perhaps the best selling and best known steam car was the Stanley Steamer, produced from 1896 to 1924. Between 1899 and 1905, Stanley outsold all gasoline-powered cars and was second only to the electric cars of the Columbia Automobile Company in the U.S. [ 10 ] It used a compact fire-tube boiler to power a simple double acting two cylinder engine.
The American Steam Car was a product of the American Steam Automobile Co, West Newton, Massachusetts, from 1924 to 1948. It was built by Thomas S. Derr, a former faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Derr specialized in servicing, modifications and improvements of Stanley steam cars. He went on to develop his own engine ...
A steam car made by the Cremorne Motor Manufacturing Company of Chelsea. [25] [102] Crompton: US: 1903–1905: A steam car made by the Crompton Motor Carriage Company of Worcester. [25] [31] Dawson: US: 1900–1902: A steam car made by George Dawson's Dawson Manufacturing Company at Waynesboro (then known as Basic City). Only one was completed ...
The two-cylinder steam engine was situated amidships of the wood-framed car. By now, the car had improved boilers and a new water pump, manufactured by the Overman Wheel Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. This company itself built the Victor Steamer. [4]: 1453 1905 Locomobile logo
Almost immediately, Brisben Walker and Lorenzo Barber parted ways and split the company in two. Walker set up the Mobile Company of America with the right to the Stanley patents but no factory, while the Locomobile Company shared the patent rights but also received the Stanley Watertown factory and most of the steam cars under production. [1] [2]
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The company produced a 25 hp two-cylinder, shaft-driven model [4] that was the first steam-powered car to have the boiler, engine, and tanks all up front under the hood. [1] The five-passenger touring car weighed 2800 pounds and cost $2800. [1]