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The Stanley (nicknamed Stanley Steamer) was a steam-powered automobile produced by the Stanley Motor Carriage Company. In 1906, the Stanley Rocket set the world land speed record at 127.7 mph (205.5 km/h) at the Daytona Beach Road Course, driven by Fred Marriott, picking up the Dewar Trophy in the process. This is still officially recognized as the land speed record for a steam car. The Steamer enjoyed a boom in the early 1900s before eventually being overtaken technologically by the internal combustion engine. The 1923 Stanley Steam Car. ...
The 1923 Stanley Steam Car. ...
The 1923 Stanley Steam Car A steam car is a car powered by a steam engine. ...
Karl Benzs Velo (vélo means bicycle in French) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race 2005 MINI Cooper S. An automobile (also motor car or simply car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ...
Ralph DePalma in his Packard 905 Special at Daytona Beach in 1919, courtesy Florida Photographic Collection For the album Land Speed Record by the band Hüsker Dü, see Land Speed Record (album). ...
Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...
Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ...
Daytona Beach Road Course was a race track that was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR. It originally became famous as the location where fifteen world land speed records were set. ...
The demolished Rocket Stanley Steamer (1907) Fred Marriott was an American race car driver. ...
The Dewar Trophy was a cup donated in the early years of the twentieth century by Sir Thomas R. Dewar, M.P. a member of parliament of the United Kingdom, to be awarded each year by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) of England to the motor car which should successfully...
The 1923 Stanley Steam Car A steam car is a car powered by a steam engine. ...
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History
 The demolished "Rocket" Stanley Steamer (1907) courtesy Florida Photographic Collection Twins Francis Edgar Stanley (1849-1918) and Freelan O. Stanley (1849-1940) founded the company after selling their photographic dry plate business to Eastman Kodak. They produced their first car in 1897. They sold the rights to this design to Locomobile. Image File history File links N041920. ...
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Francis Edgar Stanley (1849-1918) was an American businessman and was the co-founder, along with his twin brother Freelan O. Stanley, of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company which built the Stanley Steamer. ...
Freelan O. Stanley (1849 - 1940) was an American businessman. ...
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is an American multinational public company producing photographic materials and equipment. ...
Steam powered Locomobile, from January, 1901 advertisement Locomobile was a company that produced automobiles in the United States of America from 1899 to 1929. ...
Early Stanley/Locomobile cars had light wooden bodies mounted on unsprung tubular steel frames by means of full-elliptic springs. Steam was generated in a vertical fire-tube boiler, mounted beneath the seat, with a vaporizing petroleum (later, kerosene) burner underneath. The boiler was reinforced by winding several layers of piano-wire around it, which gave it a tremendously strong, yet relatively light-weight, shell. In early models, the vertical fire-tubes were made of copper, and were expanded into holes in the upper and lower crown sheets. In later models, the fitment of condensers caused oil-fouling of the expansion joints, and welded steel fire-tubes were used instead. The boilers were safer than one might expect - they were fitted with safety valves, and even if these failed, a dangerous overpressure would rupture one of the many joints long before the boiler shell was in danger of bursting, and the resulting leak would relieve the boiler pressure and douse the burner with little risk to the occupants of the car. There has never been a documented case of a Stanley boiler exploding in use[1][2]. A fire-tube boiler is a type of boiler in which hot gases from the fire pass through one or more tubes within the boiler. ...
An expansion joint is an assembly designed to safely absorb the heat-induced expansion and contraction of metallic parts. ...
The engine had two double-acting cylinders side-by-side, equipped with slide-valves, and was of the simple-expansion type. Drive was transmitted directly from the engine crankshaft to a rear-mounted differential by means of a chain. Locomobiles were often modified by their owners, who added third-party accessories, e.g., improved lubricators, condensers, and devices which mitigated the laborious starting procedure, etc. A differential can mean one of several things: Differential (mathematics) Differential (mechanics) Differential signaling is used to carry high speed digital signals. ...
Later, the Stanley brothers, to overcome patent difficulties, developed a new automobile model with twin cylinder engines geared directly to the back axle. Later models had aluminium coachwork, but retained many antiquated features, for example the unsprung tubular steel frame.
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company operated between 1902 and 1917. The cars made by the company were referred to as Stanley Steamers. When they shifted the steam boiler to the front of the vehicle, the resulting feature was called by owners the "coffin nose." In order to improve range, condensers were used, beginning in 1915. A Stanley Steamer broke the world record for the fastest mile in a steam car (28.2 seconds). At first, production was limited, but it rose to 500 cars in 1917. Look up condenser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
During the mid to late 1910s, as the fuel efficiency and power delivery of internal combustion engines improved dramatically and the usage of an electric starter rather than a crank start, which was notorious for injury to its operators, also led to the rise of the gas-powered automobile (which eventually was much cheaper). The Stanley company also produced a series of advertising campaigns trying to woo the car-buying public away from the "internal explosion engine," to little effect. An advertising slogan for these campaigns was, "Power - Correctly Generated, Correctly Controlled, Correctly Applied to the Rear Axle." These campaigns are early examples of a fear, uncertainty and doubt type advertising campaign (for a more modern example, see Johnny Turbo), as their purpose was not so much to convince the audience of the benefits of the Stanley Steamer car as to plant the notion in the reader's head that an internal combustion automobile could explode. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitors product. ...
Johnny Turbo striking a pose and spreading his unique brand of the truth. ...
In 1917, the brothers sold their interests to Prescott Warren. The last Stanley Steamer was produced before 1927. The company endured a long period of decline and technological stagnation. As the production specifications show[3], no models with a power output higher than 20 hp were produced after 1918. Far better cars were available at much lower cost - for example, a 1924 Stanley 740D sedan cost $3950, compared to a few hundred dollars for a Ford Model T of the same period. The widespread use of electric starters in internal combustion cars, pioneered on production cars by Cadillac in 1912, eroded away the greatest of the last remaining technological advantages of the steam car. hp, see HP (disambiguation) The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Fords Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. ...
Cadillac is a brand of luxury vehicles, part of General Motors, produced and mostly sold in the United States and Canada. ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Efficiencies of scale, a lack of effective advertising and general public desire for higher speeds and less fussy starting than were possible with the stagnant Stanley technology were the primary causes of the company's demise.
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Miscellaneous - Jay Leno, host of the Tonight Show, owns and drives a Stanley Steamer to work. Even though it leaks water, it remains one of the favorite cars in his collection.
- There is a carpet cleaning service in the US operating under the trademark Stanley Steemer; presumably the peculiar spelling was adopted so they could register the name as a trademark.
- The Gap Dragon in Xanth, which shoots steam from its mouth, is named Stanley Steamer.
- In the movie Cars, the founder of the town of Radiator Springs is named Stanley, and he is likely either a Stanley Steamer or Ford Model T.
Jay Leno (born James Douglas Muir Leno April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ...
The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush and current host Jay Leno. ...
Spoiler warning: // Beauregard the Demon A highly intelligent demon of Xanth who is writing a doctoral thesis on the supremecy of demons over other lifeforms entitled Fallibilities of Other Intelligent Life in Xanth. Once owed a debt to the Good Magician Humfrey after seeking information from the Good Magician on...
Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for a series of novels. ...
Cars is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Saturn -nominated, Golden Globe-winning animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, presented by Walt Disney Pictures, and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. ...
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This is a list of characters from the 2006 Pixar film, Cars. ...
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Fords Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. ...
See also The 1923 Stanley Steam Car A steam car is a car powered by a steam engine. ...
// The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ...
See Steam engine, Steam power during the Industrial Revolution. ...
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