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    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...
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    The Doble steam car was an American steam car maker from 1909 to 1931. Its latter models of steam car, with fast-firing boiler and electric start, were...
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    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...
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  • The Empire Steam Car was a United States steam car manufactured between about 1925 and 1927. Built with a three-cylinder compound engine, it was designed...
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    independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction...
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  • The steam car manufacturers listed here were mostly active during the first period of volume production, roughly 1860–1930, with a peak around 1900. From...
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  • The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of steam cars that operated from 1902 to 1924, going defunct after it failed to adapt to...
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  • (1920–1927) BMA (1952–1954) Boncar (1905–1907) (steam) Bond (1948–1974) Bolsover (1902) (steam) Bound (1920) Bow-V-Car (1922–1923) BPD (1913) Brabham (1962–1992)...
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  • American Steam Automobile Co. (1924–1931) Based in Massachusetts American Steam Truck Co. (1922–1924) Based in Illinois American Voiturette (1913–1914) Car-Nation...
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  • The Bryan Steam Car was an American steam car manufactured from 1918 until 1923. The car was produced by Bryan Steam Motors of Peru, Indiana, a company...
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    Bozek, built an oil-fired steam car.: 27  Walter Hancock, builder and operator of London steam buses, in 1838 built a two-seated car phaeton.: 27  In 1867...
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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    about $136,000 in 2023) 1911 White Motor Company steam car. President Taft became a fan of the steam car when he discovered he could conceal himself from...
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    during the first part of the 19th century, including steam cars, steam buses, phaetons, and steam rollers. In the United Kingdom, sentiment against them...
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    A steam bus is a bus powered by a steam engine. Early steam-powered vehicles designed for carrying passengers were more usually known as steam carriages...
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  • car. The White steam car reentered popular culture in 2023 when comedian and classic car collector Jay Leno, while repairing his 1907 White steam car...
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    The Coats Steam Car Company was an American steam automobile manufacturer based in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. It was founded by George A. Coats...
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  • Thomas Rickett from Buckingham, England, made a steam-powered car in 1860. Several examples were made and it was also advertised. Rickett was manager...
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  • American Steamer (category Steam cars)
    American steam car manufactured by the American Steam Truck Co. of Elgin, Illinois, from 1922 to 1924. The American Steamer was typical of the steam cars which...
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  • The Hidley Steam Car was an American steam car manufactured only in 1901. One was certainly built, and as many as four may have been produced at the factory...
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    August 25, 2009, Team Inspiration of the British Steam Car Challenge broke the long-standing record for a steam vehicle set by a Stanley Steamer in 1906, setting...
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    The Standard Steam Car was an American steam car manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of St Louis, Missouri from 1920 until 1921. L. L. Scott...
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    Tram (redirect from Steam tram-car)
    The moving cable pulled the car up the hill at a steady pace, unlike a low-powered steam or horse-drawn car. Cable cars do have wheel brakes and track...
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    is a British-designed and -built steam-propelled car designed by Glynne Bowsher and developed by the British Steam Car Challenge team. Inspiration holds...
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    A steam railcar, steam motor car (US), or Railmotor (UK) is a railcar that is self powered by a steam engine. The first steam railcar was an experimental...
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    Brooks Steam Motors, Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of steam cars established in March 1923. Its cars more closely resembled the Stanley Steamers in...
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  • Reading Steamer (category Steam cars)
    Reading and Meteor were American steam cars developed by Irvin D. Lengel in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Built by the Steam Vehicle Company of America, their...
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  • Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 17th century...
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    were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1887 and his first gasoline-powered car in 1896. The modern assembly line and its basic...
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    these steam automobiles is the unreliability, complexity, and the frequent accidents that occurred with them. The startup time for a steam car may take...
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