A steam motor is a form of steam engine used for light locomotives and light self-propelled motor cars used on railways. The origins of steam motor cars...
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Paccar. Leyland Motors has a long history dating from 1896, when the Sumner and Spurrier families founded the Lancashire Steam Motor Company in the town...
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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...
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Sydney Steam Motor Trams were built for and operated by the New South Wales Government Tramways of Australia. Steam trams were introduced when four steam tram...
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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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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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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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The Pallot Steam, Motor & General Museum is a mechanical heritage museum located in Rue De Bechet in the Parish of Trinity on the island of Jersey. Lyndon...
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The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated...
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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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"1679-1681 Steam carriage from Verbiest". History of the Automobile: origin to 1900. Hergé. Setright, LJK (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car...
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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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Engine (redirect from Motor (device))
vehicles such as steam rollers. The term motor derives from the Latin verb moto which means 'to set in motion', or 'maintain motion'. Thus a motor is a device...
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Detroit Steam Motors Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, U.S., is a defunct American steam car motor car manufacturer. The Detroit Steam Motors Corporation...
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stationary steam engines for heating and powering buildings and industry. As well as railway locomotives, Baldwin built street tramway steam motors in large...
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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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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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Yacht (redirect from Motor yacht)
Steam engines remained the dominant source of power until the early 20th century, when advances in the design of the steam turbine, electric motors and...
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Advanced steam technology (sometimes known as modern steam) reflects an approach to the technical development of the steam engine intended for a wider...
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Abner Doble (section Abner Doble Motor Vehicle Company, General Engineering, and Doble Steam Motors)
automobiles from the early 1900s, including a 1969 General Motors prototype and the first successful steam-powered aeroplane. Doble was born on March 26, 1890...
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Railmotor (redirect from Steam-powered railbus)
1905-vintage, British-built steam railmotor is operated on the Pichi Richi Railway: the former South Australian Railways Steam Motor Coach (SMC) no. 1, the...
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the fifth wheel in a motorised vehicle was the Messrs T. Toward & Co Steam Motor Tractor that was exhibited at the Northumberland Agricultural Society...
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used steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines. Later, diesel-powered torpedo boats appeared, in turn or retroactively referred to as "motor torpedo...
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A steam clock is a clock which is fully or partially powered by a steam engine. Only a few functioning steam clocks exist, most designed and built by Canadian...
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dummies or steam motors for many American tramways. Baldwin exported to places such as Sydney, Australia - where they were known as 'steam tram motors' - and...
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Alexander Leutner & Co. Thomas Rickett's steam-powered car was particularly notable in the history of motor vehicle production inasmuch as several examples...
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Retrieved 15 May 2013. "White Motor Company". The Washington Post. 24 February 1909. Hoke, Donald R. "President Taft's White Steam Car". www.virtualsteamcarmuseum...
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History of the automobile (redirect from Advent of the motor car)
in 1672 with the invention of the first steam-powered vehicle, which led to the creation of the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation...
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Timeline of motor and engine technology (c. 30–70 AD) – Hero of Alexandria describes the first documented steam-powered device, the aeolipile. 13th century...
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A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine. The names of motor ships are often prefixed...
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