STEAM CARS & PARTS FOR SALE

Over the years we have patterned and poured for different kinds of unmachined Stanley cylinder blocks: model F 20hp 3 5/8x5”, 20hp Non condensing 4x5”, 20hp Condensing 4x5”, 30hp light frame 4 1/2x6 1/2”.
All were cast with the highest quality cast iron with 1% nickel for extra durability. These are exact replicates with a Steam and Stuff casting mark. We have some available. If interested contact Allen Blazick @ allen@blazick.com.

I'm missing the door latch off my Stanley 740 roadster behind the seat compartment. The Latch is unkeyed and uses a square end T handle to open and close. The recess and cover appears identical to the boot latches so a boot latch would be fine. The pictures of the boot latch and the cut out are below.

Please Contact Mark Stacey-mark@cncprototyping.co.nz if you can help.

1922 735B Stanley Steam Car

Great project!
This car is quite complete. I'm posting a whole bunch of pictures for consideration. Many parts look to be in great condition aside from dirt, dust, and age. Certainly much will require some refurbishing but if you are considering a Stanley you know all about that! All systems are quite simple, so is their restoration. Its not hard, just different!
There are 5 new tires, the right side are mounted, the others are still wrapped. Spare rim included. This car has a rear mounted trunk and extensions for the spare tire holder. Originally a California top car, included is a fairly complete set of hardware for the California top as well as a folding top and some gathers. Interior components and floorboards are complete with all hardware.
While you are welcome to 1 of 3 "old" boilers, I wouldn't recommend using any of the options. The burner is mostly complete but disassembled. Good for patterns for a new burner. The engine is complete and runs on air. Leaks a little but runs as a Stanley does on air.
Piping is mostly all there from what I can see. Pump pit fittings, wye's etc are there. Water and fuel filters, the essential valves (bypass, main fuel, firing up, etc) are all there. Probably will need a few hand valves to complete. Yarway blow down is there. Steam automatic, fuel automatic, low fuel cutoff, water automatic, etc included. Kidney gauge, service fuel tanks, water tank, hand pumps etc.
Chassis rolls nicely and appears in pretty good order. Body all has some various surface corrosion but not really any serious cancer. Wood is pretty solid. The doors do not all line up 100% but all doors latch at leaet on the first notch. Dash is pretty complete including gauges and lights. I have a speedometer or 2 that would fit. There is an air gauge as well which can be hard to find.
$22500 or best offer.

Send me a message for email or phone number. I have a very similar car here running and is a perfect example for "where everything goes". Stop out to see me and take a ride in my other car!
Pm for more details or to discuss!

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To be offered at Bonhams' ​The Amelia Island Auction 5 Mar 2020, 12:00 EST, Fernandina Beach Golf Club.

Lot 152
Formerly in the Curt Blake Collection
1908 Stanley Model F 20HP Touring Car
Chassis no. 3899
Engine no. F-862
2-Cylinder Double-Acting Steam Engine
Approximately 20bhp
Chain-Driven Rear Differential
4-Wheel Leaf Spring Suspension
2-Wheel Mechanical Brakes

*Recognized as a highly authentic example
*Known ownership back to the 1950s
*In use in recent years
*Eligible for HCCA Tours

STANLEY STEAM CARS

Certainly the best known, if not the most common steamers, came from the Massachusetts workshops of former photographic equipment makers F.E. and F.O. Stanley. The earliest cars were buggy-like, with their boiler and valve controls under the seat, but eventually came to look much like conventional automobiles, having the boiler and motor under a boxy, coffin-like nose and the drive taken to the rear wheels.

When the early 10hp models were found to be limited in their performance if fully laden, Stanley responded with the scaled-up 20hp Model F in 1905. Form 1906 their wheelbase was extended slightly to 100 inches allowing for more coachwork capacity and the boiler enlarged to 23 inches. The model was a great success, remaining in production through to 1908 and being the basis for successive 20hp cars. A five passenger side entrance tonneau as that offered here could run then and today at 50mph, and would have set its owner back a mere $1,500 when new, which was terrific value compared to other cars, be they steam powered or gasoline. It led Stanley to claim that 'there is no American gasoline (sic) stock car, at any price, which is so speedy on road, hill or track'! The Model F actually was the fastest stock touring car in the word, as it won the honor at Ormond Beach alongside the Stanley Land Speed Racer.

THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

Stanley steam cars have always had a devoted following, many sharing the fascination of this bygone era before the world became fully dominated by cars powered by internal combustion engines. The curiosity and love of the concept and indeed the performance that a steam car offers has meant that long after their day enthusiasts would piece together spares and revive, resuscitate or indeed build cars from scratch. In the modern collecting era which has become more educated on purity, originality and authenticity of an automobile, this has made a quest for a truly original steam car become quite a challenge and even more so if one wants one of the larger horsepower examples.

It was exactly that conundrum that the late owner of this car faced when wishing to satiate his desire to add a 20hp Stanley to a well honed stable of the finest and purest pre-war automobiles. Finally in 2016, his attention was drawn to the example offered today, which in his the current idiom 'ticked all the boxes'. In its last ownership it has resided for a decade or more in the well-respected, but now disbanded Wells Auto Museum in Maine.

Stanley number 3899 could trace its ownership back to the 1950s or earlier always being known as a wonderful example of its breed. According to the online published Stanley Register and information kindly provided by Mark Herman, the car was owned by a Webster Knight in 1951, who is understood to have found it in Rhode Island. The car was suspended on the upper floor in an old mill building when Mr. Knight recovered it! In 1986 it joined the collection of Curtis Blake, one of the two car collecting brothers who owned the famed Friendly's chain of restaurants, and it was sympathetically, but extensively restored for him by Calvin Holmes, a pioneer steam car restoration specialist. The top currently on the car was a gift from noted steam car collector Frank Gardner and is said to be from his father's 1906 Model F, purchased new from the Stanley factory. It then went to Brent Campbell, a major collector and historian of the Stanley marque, and later the Gould family who ran Wells.

The car operates as originally outfitted with a single fuel gasoline burner and pilot, which is a notable original feature. The 1908 F is coveted for its updated Oil pump system and the graceful cowl that replace the earlier flat dashed cars of 1905-07. As purchased the Stanley was in running order, it has continued to be maintained in the last 3 years and has been taken to HCCA events.

Gurus of this genre and era, such as Mark Herman and Stu Laidlaw, cite this car being one of the very best of the surviving 20hp cars, high praise indeed!

It offers tour car potential and a truly collectible example of the marque and model, which is rarely found.Footnotes

• Please note, this vehicle is offered on a Bill of Sale.

Estimate- US$ 180,000 - 220,000
                         £ 140,000 - 170,000​

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To be Offered at Bonhams' The Amelia Island Auction, 5 Mar 2020, 12:00 EST, Fernandina Beach Golf Club.

Lot 186
Believed to the last known surviving White steam car before the switch over to gasoline power
1910 White Model 0-0 5-Passenger Touring
Chassis no. 10347
Engine no. 1070
2-Cylinder Compound (High/Low) Steam Engine
Water-Tube Flash Boiler
Approx. 20bhp. Sold $80000.00
2-Speed Transaxle
4-Wheel Leaf Spring
Rear Drum Brakes

*A highly authentic and original example of a well renowned model
*Formerly owned by Dick Wells for 25 years
*Sympathetically maintained and routinely steamed up
*Previously regularly driven on tours

THE WHITE STEAMER

White Steamers were manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1900 until 1910 by the White Motor Company. Thomas White and William Grout had gone into business as a manufacturer of sewing machines in Massachusetts before the Civil War, later moving the firm to Ohio. Around 1900, White's sons Rollin, Windsor, and Walter entered the steam automobile industry, producing four automobiles and one truck. Rollin White had already invented the semi-flash boiler, at that time an important advancement in steam technology. According to the Standard Catalog of American Cars, the firm had produced 193 vehicles in 1901. In 1906, White's automobile division began operating separately from its parent sewing machine business. White steamers were of excellent quality, and many were purchased by prominent individuals, including President Taft and John D. Rockefeller. In fact, a White was the only automobile present in the 1905 inaugural parade of President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1910, White made a successful foray into the manufacture of gasoline-powered vehicles, selling nearly as many of those as it had of steam cars. The numbers were fairly even again in 1911, but that was the final year for White steamers. By 1911, White had handily surpassed Stanley as the largest manufacturers of steam automobiles, delivering over 9,000 examples to Stanley's total of 5,200, despite costing significantly more.

White steamers featured a complex, "Compound" two-cylinder system in which water was flash-heated in a boiler, then compressed in one cylinder, and then injected into a second cylinder at high pressure. White steamers also used a rear transaxle that incorporated two forward speeds plus neutral; the neutral allowed an operator to warm up the car at rest. In 1918, when White ceased production of automobiles to concentrate on commercial trucks, it had produced more than 9,000 steam-powered cars. Although many were built, White steamers are rarely seen today. Whites are viewed by many as the finest of the early steam cars, well-built and costly when new, and greatly appreciated today.

THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

This Model O-O is presented from a stable of exceptionally high-quality early automobiles, each selected with the utmost care for correctness and originality. It is quite common for steam cars to have been revived from a modest basis of spares, but far rarer to find a pure, original example such as the car on offer. To judge from the car's condition today, it appears to have been sympathetically owned and only lightly restored over time, viewing it is a rewarding exercise.

The bodywork, finished in an understated white over black scheme is original, beneath the front passenger seat its body construction number can be found, 00941, and while some of the more used front seating has been retrimmed carefully, the rear door panels reveal themselves to be the original leather finish. The beauty of authentic cars is in the detail that they retain, and the White can be seen to still have features such as its original supply plate, kicker plates on the entry points on the front seating area and even its windshield still has its maker plaque confirming the existence of an entity long forgotten – The Troy Carriage Sun Shade Company of Troy, Ohio.

That the car survives so well 110 years after it was built in this fine order is testament to a simple chain of ownership, which the White Steam Car Registry cites a mere handful of custodians for the car, being Ollie Hall, Emmett Tucker, Charlie Kulchar and then Dick Wells in 1991 from whom the current owners acquired it in 2016. In its last ownership, Mr. Wells routinely used the car, steaming her up for a number of tours and as purchased it was in ready to use order.

This is recorded as the highest listed number in the sequence of these cars, in theory making it the last that was built/supplied – a notable claim and landmark in the story of White as they moved away from steam to petrol cars.Footnotes

• Please note, this vehicle is offered on a Bill of Sale.

Estimate- US$ 125,000 - 175,000
£ 98,000 - 140,000

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To be offered without reserve at Bonhams' The Amelia Island Auction, 5 Mar 2020, 12:00 EST, Fernandina Beach Golf Club.

Lot 211
1908 Stanley Steamer 10hp EX Runabout
Chassis no. 4108
10bhp Single-Cylinder Steam Engine
Solid Front Axle and Live Rear Axle
Full-Elliptical Leaf Spring Suspension
2-Wheel Mechanical Brake System

*Sporty and charismatic steam car
*From the estate of Mr. Gary Hoonsbeen.
*Comprehensively restored.
*Known history since the 1960s

THE MOTORCAR OFFERED

The Stanley twins, Francis E. and Freelan O., were exceptionally gifted, creative designers who also happened to be solid businessmen. The famous steam automobile which bears their name is the second.

The Stanley Model EX was entirely a wooden body design including the main frame rails. The Model EX was a "four" passenger car. The rear seat was unlike any other Stanley. It was on sliders so it could be moved rearward to provide some room for passengers and slide forward to convert the rear area to just storage.

The Stanley's design had one advantage; it was an extremely light-weight vehicle. The EX Model, with about 450 pounds of steam pressure could reach 60mph for a mile or so; it could accelerate at rates that would beat any internal combustion engine vehicle then produced.

This particular 1908 Stanley Model EX was discovered in a barn in Massachusetts in the 1960s. It was purchased from a collector in Massachusetts by Gary Hoonsbeen in 2004. Gary, known best for his 40-years as editor of the Curved Dash Oldsmobile Club newsletter, had recently completed a restoration of a 1900 Mobile. The steam engine Mobile had been used by Gary on several tours and proved to be a reliable car, he now was looking to tackle a Stanley.

This Stanley Model EX had undergone a previous restoration, but Gary felt much of the work had been done incorrectly or of poor quality. He set about to return this Stanley to its original specifications spending over 6-years on a meticulous restoration.

As he was completing the work on this Stanley, his health turned poor. However, he had fully tested all the systems and was confident the car was ready for its initial run. He passed away before being able to start the car.
The car is offered largely complete as shown, with parts and documents chronically Gary's restoration.

Estimate-US $ 60,000 - 80,000

                         £ 47,000 - 63,000

 To be sold without reserve

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1922 STANLEY MODEL 740D - 20HP SEDAN

Less than 300 miles since recent completion of a ten year thorough rebuild, new boiler, refurbished engine , new dashboard with refurbished instrumentation, all by John Goold restorations, new pipework throughout, repainted and new upholstery, coachwork completely refurbished including door frames roof etc. 12 month boiler certificate. Re advertised at reduced price due to ill health.

£72000 or very near offer.

Contact Harold on 07867 550772 or Tony 07867 527425

Half Scale Stanley Steam Car
Year built-Unknown
Boiler test- New hydraulic and steam tests
Length - 1850mm
Width- 950mm
Height- 980mm (Excluding removable windscreen)
Price- £8,995 

A rare opportunity to own a very unique piece of model engineering. This is a fully operational, 1:2 scale replica of the famous Stanley Steam car 4 seater. It was built in the Netherlands and comes with extensive images of the build and boiler drawings (present but in Dutch). This car is currently undergoing boiler test and is being sold to include a new hydraulic, cold and steam test by a very reputable boiler inspector, as such it is being sold ready to go. 
The car itself is gas fired and is designed to allow the driver to sit on the perch on top of the front seats. The wheels are wooden and the body has been finished to a high standard to produce a very pretty, authentic little steam car. There are a few small points of damage to the paint but only wear and tear and nothing which takes away from its character.
It comes with a pair of nice size brass, electric headlamps for the front and a removable windscreen; this is all presented in a custom box which comes with the car. The water tank is under the driver seat with the gas under the rear seat and the boiler under the bonnet. The engine itself is a double action piston located under the rear of the car all mounted on a fully sprung chassis. Fitted is also a very entertaining hooter horn. 
It is highly recommended that you arrange to view this car so you can get a feel for the scale of it and whether it would be suitable for you to drive. 

£8,995

We had this example for sale a couple of years ago. The owner has enjoyed ownership and is asking us to sell it to make way for a new venture. Therefore, the photos in this ad are from when the car was last on our premises; since then it has been well looked after and has had no notable changes aside from being commissioned for use. 
For more information, please speak to Matt or Sean on 01392 833301. As with all of our vehicles, we highly recommend viewing them in person. Whilst this example is not currently on our premises, it can be arranged with prior notice to be on site of we can liaise with the seller to show it to you where it currently lives in Cornwall. 

Stanley Open-top Tourer 10hp
Year built- 1910
Seats- 4 
Fuel- Kerosene-petrol mix
Pilot- Gas
Boiler Test- Current
Restored- 2000
Reg No- BS 9198 
Price-£74,995

We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to advertise this fantastic Stanley steam car for sale. It is an exceptional and truly sorted example, current owned and maintained by a keen enthusiast. It is an example of a 10hp four-seat open top Tourer, built originally in 1910. 
It is in good running condition with excellent paintwork. It was rebuilt by the late Reg Parsons in 2000. The boiler was removed by the current owner and rebuilt, to include a new superheater, by J Goold & Sons in around 2013. 
It has been converted to a gas pilot with two gas canisters. Once ignited, it runs on a kerosene-petrol mix. The boiler work was done under the wing of reputable boiler inspector Dave Wothers. The existing hydraulic has another 5 years or so remaining. If desired, a new steam test will be included in the sale, as the current ticket expires shortly in January 2020. It is road registered and includes the V5C on the registration number BS 9198 - being under the historic vehicle tax band, it is, of course, tax and MOT exempt. 
A fantastic opportunity to buy a unique machine which epitomises the look of the steam car. Restored and maintained to a high standard, this would want for no more than generally maintenance work wise and would be ready to go for the 2020 season. 

Asking Price - £74,995

As with any of our listed vehicles, we always recommend viewing in person. This steam car is not on our premises however we do ask all inquiries be made to us in the first instance to us and a viewing can be made thereafter. For email enquiries, please contact us on classics@berrybrook.co.uk and to phone, please call 01392 833301. 

2 cylinder engine with chain For Sale

Located in Washington, DC area USA.
Possibly a Mason Engine.

Offers Welcome
Packaging and shipping extra

Contact Charles Fox-cef5psu@gmail.com

1908 Stanley model F 20HP Touring
Very well known, original Stanley. Found in Rhode Island by Webster Knight, restored by Calvin Holmes for Curt Blake

1. Solid original body, hood etc
2. Freshly painted wheels, with new tires
3. Beautiful original brass
4. Top frame is original brass and natural wood


5. Serial # 3899

She Steams and drives well and is just about the best! One of the BEST looking, most desirable Stanley's
Take this Stanley steaming for just $189,500.00 OBO

Contact
 Stewart Laidlaw
   Redding, CT,
(203) 664-1322   
(209) 743-6622

                                                                For Sale
                                                       1903 Stanley Type B
Very original 1903 Brighton Run Car. This car has done many Brighton runs and there is a clip on YouTube of 2009 run.
This car won the 120 years of Stanley Cartier award at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2017 and the new owner will get the winning Silver Plate with the car.
The VCC Certificate of Date No 1980 says it is a Type A but it is registered as a Type B. The VCC also so say this is the most original Type A they have seen. It appears never to have been restored and has always been in running order. I am sure the bodywork has had work done but the engine and pumps seem original. The boiler was replaced in 2015 and the hydraulic certificate runs until 2025. The next Steam certificate is due in January 2020. In my ownership.
I have had hydraulic disc brakes fitted which apply to the engine not on the wheels. These are hidden under the car in a box. The car is much safer now on modern roads. She steams up and runs very well and is almost silent.
I am including a special hydraulic jack I have had made so the car can be run statically. I also have a tailor made waterproof cover. I have a number of articles of great interest about the car. If you are looking for a genuine original Stanley in very good working order, to take to shows or do the Brighton run look no further.
I have been advised that £75000.00 is about the right price but as these are so rare it is very difficult to know if this is right, if you would like to make an offer please let me know.
The car is near Chichester, West Sussex.
Contact
Robin Hamilton 07834 039585 robin.hamilton@btconnect.com.
Offers invited
New Price-£55,000

The car is a 1901 (September I think) that has been officially dated by the Veteran Car Club of Western Australia.
It is a “style No 5 Locosurrey” as shown in the sales catalog.
These differ from the 2 seater in that the 4 seater have longitudinal fully elliptical springs and a longer wheelbase.
The surrey suffers from the fact that the boiler is under the rear seat, making observation by the driver difficult (this is why FE & FO designed the fold down secondary seating front on the later Stanley's) however I’ve overcome the problem by fitting a reversing camera focused on the gauge glass and a small (removable) LED screen visible from the drivers position.
 
I purchased the car from Richard Mann of Kansas in 2006 a long way off completed. But it came with the original chassis, springs, axles & engine. It also came with a partially built replacement body, modeled off the original (that had rotted beyond all hope), a raw milled differential, a replacement water tank and raw castings for steam components. It also had extensive technical drawing, drawn by Richard (an aeronautical engineer) of the steam components.
 
The boiler is a new one purchased from Bourdon (spelling?) boiler works in the US. (the Aussie dollar was much more favorable then!).
 
I completed the body, built the seats, including upholstery, manufactured the steering tiller (which was fitted to the original tie rods and front axles)
 
I also built the burner, super-heater, steam controls, water pumps, fuel and air pressure system, controls, exhaust flue and everything else to complete the car.
 
It was road registered in June 2018.
 
I have provided the Brighton organisation with the history and restoration photos but they have a blanket ruling on Locomobiles requiring a full inspection by the VCC of GB 
 
I believe with the car authenticated it should be worth about $150,000 AUD but obviously cannot achieve anything like this without such paperwork. 
 
Anyway I would like to achieve, a minimum of $80,000.00 AUD for the car and believe it represents excellent value at that price. It obviously owes me substantially more than that.
 
I can supply all the paperwork from Richard Mann, as well as my collection of information gathered over the last 12 years. I also have a partially complete 17 inch boiler shell that was originally supplied (before I obtained the one from the US) as well as assorted other bits and pieces, that I’ve collected.
​
I’m happy to supply any other information upon request. 
$80000.00 Australian Dollars.
Dave Hume <davehume09@gmail.com>
 

To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION at RM Sothebys' Hershey event, 10 - 11 October 2019.

Offered from the Muckel Collection.

Chassis 426

The fastest, most powerful road-going Stanley model ever produced. Well-maintained older restoration by the late Carl Amsley. Formerly owned by Richard C. Paine and Otis Chandler. An ideal steam tour car with remarkable performance The Stanley steam car had a well-earned reputation for performance in the early years of the automobile; its engineering was then seen as the pinnacle of high-tech design and made for a very fast car that famously set the land speed record at Ormond Beach, Florida, in 1906. Yet in many ways it was also something of the American Bugatti—a relatively small, light machine, without the impressive towering visuals of, say, a Peerless or a Pierce Great Arrow.That changed in 1908 with the introduction of what was truly the ultimate Stanley, the Model M, representing the peak of the company’s designs—what the 66 was to Pierce and the Limited to Oldsmobile. It was a roomy five-passenger touring car; like the famous Model K, it was built on a 114-inch-wheelbase chassis and equipped with the largest and most potent 30-horsepower engine and a 550 psi boiler. These mechanical specifications, identical to the land-speed-record-setting Stanley of fame, could propel the Model M and its passengers along at 70 mph for as long as there was water in the tank. In performance and stature, it was every bit the equal of any internal-combustion road car the world’s builders could create to challenge it. It was humbly but quite accurately described by its builders thus: “We believe this is the most powerful stock touring car ever built in the world.”Very expensive, the Model M was small in number; only 75 were made over two seasons, 1908 and 1909, and no original example has survived.

Fortunately, as with many Stanleys, several very authentic and high-quality examples have been produced since from original parts, among them that offered here. It was built by the late Carl Amsley of St. Thomas, Pennsylvania, the most well-known Stanley expert of his era, highly regarded for the craftsmanship and excellent engineering of his cars. Completed in 1978, the car was awarded National First Prize in Antique Automobile Club of America competition, testament to the build quality involved.The completed Model M was acquired by Joseph L. Knapp of St. Cloud, Florida, then passed to the revered collector and sportsman Otis Chandler, a man who appreciated high performance from all eras. In 1985 it was exchanged in one of Mr. Chandler’s regular transactions with Richard C. Paine’s famed Seal Cove Auto Museum of Maine. There it remained alongside several other highly notable Stanleys until 2008, when it was acquired by John Muckel. It has now resided in the good care of the Muckel Collection for over a decade.Today the restoration shows little overall use and good cosmetic care, with its rich, dark green finish accented in black, and a chassis, artillery wheels, and striping in lemon yellow. The interior is upholstered in button-tufted black leather overseen by a black cloth top. Accessories, the highlight of any Brass automobile, include Rushmore acetylene headlamps, E&J kerosene sidelights and taillight, a trumpet-style bulb horn, and two large side-view mirrors affixed to the windshield frame. The car is accompanied by a selection of reprinted manuals and literature.Every Stanley enthusiast should desire a Model M—the ultimate performance thrill from a company that built the fastest land-going vehicles of its era. It is an engineer and tinkerer’s dream, fairly begging to move speedily once again down a country highway.To view this car and others currently consigned to this auction, please visit the RM website at - details above.

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Sold

For Sale at Bonhams the Beaulieu Sale
Collectors' Motor Cars & Motorcycles and Automobilia
​7 Sep 2019, 16:00 BST
Beaulieu, National Motor Museum    NOW SOLD PRIVATELY 
1916 Stanley Three-Seat Steam Roadster
Registration no. EL 1004
Chassis no. 16703
*Iconic American steam-powered passenger car
*New burner installed (2008)
*Boiler inspection report (December 2018)

Footnotes

• During motoring's pioneer period, while battery electrics were successful as a short-range town carriage and even shorter-range speed record breakers, steam and petrol cars seemed roughly equal in the duel to achieve commercial dominance. The steam engine's ability to develop maximum torque at minimum revolutions meant steam cars did not require the demanding and noisy gear change systems vital with a petrol engine. Neither did it demand those two most unreliable items - a carburettor and an ignition system. Because of its low-speed torque a steam engine could be geared to run at a speed below which vibration might intrude. It was quiet and clean, and early on for every rural engineer who understood petrol engines there would be a hundred who knew steam...
  
  Francis E and Freeland O Stanley were identical twins whose Stanley Dry Plate Company produced photographic equipment. The brothers also designed steam cars, experimenting with a solitary prototype in 1887 before reviving the project in 1897. By the following year they had built three more, one of which completed a spectacular demonstration in Charles River Park, Boston where it successfully scaled an 80ft incline that had defeated its rivals. Orders for 200 cars resulted and the Stanleys were in business. That first design was sold to John Brisben Walker and manufactured as the 'Locomobile', while the Stanleys progressed to a non-condensing engine driving the rear axle directly, with a rear-mounted boiler, production of which commenced in 1902. With Mobile out of business by 1903 and Locomobile by that time making petrol-engined cars, Stanley dominated the steam-car market and continued to do so until 1927 when steamer production ceased. Stanley's sole UK agent was F Wilkinson of Manchester.
  
  This Stanley's late owner died recently in a helicopter accident and since his passing it has only been possible to locate limited information concerning the car. Accompanying documentation consists of a copy of the V5C Registration Certificate; a bill for a new burner installation and other works by J R Goold Steam Restorations Ltd (2008); and an SPF Inspection and Consultancy report on the condition of the boiler dated 18th December 2018. It is stated therein that the next Thorough Examination must be carried out by 27th January 2020. It should also be noted that the V5C records the date of first UK registration as 1st February 1980 and incorrectly states that this vehicle is powered by a 2,000cc petrol engine.

Estimate £40,000-£50,000 GBP

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