Pawtucket Steamboat Company

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Pawtucket Steamboat Company was an American company. The seat was at 54 East Avenue in Pawtucket , Rhode Island . It made steam engines , boats and ships . From 1901 to 1902 the company also built the Pawtucket steam car . The basis for this came from the Moncrief King Bee , which was also created in Pawtucket.

Steam boats

  • Petrel , built by the Pawtucket Steamboat Company in 1892, was used commercially and operated on the Pawtucket River
  • USS Pontiac ID # 2343, 112 GRT steam ferry, built as a Pioneer in 1883 by the Pawtucket Steamboat Company and renovated by them in 1909. In 1918 the boat was chartered by the US Navy . A planned conversion to a minesweeper did not take place. In the same year it was returned to the owners.

Steam cars

In 1901 James A. Moncrief completed a steam car of his own design in Pawtucket. The steam engine, a two-cylinder engine with a vertical tubular boiler, was made for him by the Pawtucket Steamboat Company according to his specifications. The chassis of the Moncrief King Bee was made of steel tubes. The vehicle had wheels made of wood and solid rubber tires. Power was transmitted to the rear axle via a chain. The steam car convinced the Pawtucket Steamboat Co. so that they took over the production of further copies under the brand name Pawtucket . Moncrief subsequently became the company's managing director.

The Pawtucket's engine performed 7 HP according to the calculation formula at that time. The vehicle was bodied as a two-seater runabout ( roadster ) and weighed approximately 1700 lb (770 kg). It had with 35 and 14 gal. (132.5 and 53 liters) quite large tanks for water and gasoline and a correspondingly large range . Lighter versions of 1100 lb (500 kg) and 800 lb (363 kg) followed, but automobile production was discontinued as early as 1902.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes (Ed.), Henry Austin Clark, Jr.: The Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942. 2nd Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-111-0 , pp. 949 and 1117.

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