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kcm.MN

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1896 Shearar steam carriage
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What's that old saying: "You've come a long way baby!" Yes sir-ree. On steamers, I don't know how they navigated soft farm soil...surely you folks have
stories to tell.
 
The bow placement of a navigator allows spoken words and screams to prompt steering corrections. If occupied, it might also provide a measure of crush
protection in a frontal impact. Jim
 
wish I had pictures of the British busses and heavy rucks that were steam. I recall a story of when the first diesels came out, one was loaded, started up a steep hill and stalled out, a steam driven one came along, hooked a chain between them, took both loads up the hill. Steam is still more powerful than fuel driven [gas or diesel] The British one were a flash boiler., open a valve drip water on a hot plate and voila steam.
 
Those are some blinged out Stanley's, even have front brakes!

Jay Lenno says Stanley's were working class cars, difficult and dangerous to operate and maintain.

The top end brands were easier, safer, and more reliable.
 
I think that one would have been pretty much limited to the few paved streets in town!

Probably wasn't long before JC Whitney offered mud grip wheels!
 

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You mean like this? Sentinel Steamer. A local company used to have a fleet of these boiling tar and spreading it to repair roads. When I was three or four years, I used to play with the tar after they had passed, that is why my mother used to clean me up with butter afterwards. :0)
 
Not related to he subject but to tar. Growing up the house had like a 1 or maybe 2/12 pitch. Roof coovering was hot tar with dime sized gravel spread one rock thick on top of a tar mopping over the underlayment. When the roofers finished reroofing, they left part of an unused bag out in the trash pile. Many a day buddies and I would knock off chunks of that tar and sit and yak and chew on it...just did it, didn't swallow.
 

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