He NEVER gets STEAMED, but his car DOES

He NEVER gets STEAMED, but his car DOES

1910 Stanley Model 70

At the dawn of the motorcar era there were many interpretations of what exactly a car should be. Style, design, and engineering where just a few concerns, but propulsion was also a critical factor as there were cars that ran on electricity, gasoline, springs and even a few brave designs that were said to run on compressed air.  Some worked and some didn’t, but one method that had proven itself repeatedly on America’s railroads was steam.  

The ability to move hundreds of thousands of pounds with steam power easily translated into powering a car.  No one was better than the brothers, Francis E. and Freeland O. Stanley.  Building their first car in 1987, the brothers steadily refined their design and then amazed the world with the reliability and speed of their steam powered car.  Experiencing the usual growing pains of a successful company, the Stanley brothers went on to command the steam car market, a position they held until the Staley Company withered away in late 1924.

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