Société des Chaudières et Voitures à Vapeur système Scotte

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The Société des Chaudières et Voitures à Vapeur système Scotte was a French manufacturer of commercial vehicles with steam engines .

Train Scotte steam bus with passenger trailer. Photo from 1898.
Scotte steam bus before the Paris-Rouen race (1894).

J. Scotte from Épernay has been building steam cars since the 1880s . Correspondence with Trépardoux & Cie. in Puteaux (later De Dion-Bouton ) from 1886. Between 1892 and 1893 he manufactured at least two steam cars. One example was set up as an open wagonette for a private customer, another, made in 1892, was called a six-person omnibus . With this Scotte took part in the Paris-Rouen race in 1894 , officially the first automobile race in sports history. This Scotte steam car has been preserved.

Around 1893, Scotte founded the Société des Chaudières et Voitures à Vapeur in Paris and began manufacturing boilers and steam cars, although it seems that for the latter he relied entirely on commercial vehicles and no longer built private cars. The brand name was Scotte .

By mid-1894 he had developed the omnibus into a 14-seater and introduced significant technical improvements. What remained were the stationary two-piston engine, the also stationary boiler in front and the coal-fired furnace. The power was transmitted from the machine via a main chain to a drive shaft, which also contained the differential. From here two smaller chains led to the rear axle.

The Train Scotte , a steam bus with a passenger trailer , followed in 1897 . Intended for rural areas, these vehicles were intended to be used as a kind of "rail-less tram" instead of stagecoaches.

But mainly heavy tractors were built. In 1897 a heavy Scotte road tractor took part in the Concours des poids-lourds advertised by the army . This vehicle, fitted with iron tires, had a payload of 4200 kg and drove at 7 km / h on the still unpaved roads. Extensive tests were carried out by the army after the competition. In the winter of 1897/1898 the tractor transported material for the artillery, ammunition, components for floating bridges and material for the navy. He pulled loads of up to 21 tons. It is not known whether the vehicle was taken over or whether Scotte was allowed to supply the army.

In 1905 a steam bus was tested by the French army, but not taken over. For the Société de Secours aux Blesses militaires , Scotte built a Train Ambulance , a steam-powered ambulance with a trailer. Production ended around 1914 and Scotte went back to Épernay, where he started a hat making business.

literature

  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles ; MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI (1979); ISBN 0-87341-024-6 ; Hardcover
  • Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album) , Shire Publications Ltd (December 1985), hardcover, ISBN 0852637748 resp. ISBN 978-0852637746 . (English)
  • Anthony Bird and Edward Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu: Steam Cars, 1770-1970 , Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (March 22, 1971), ISBN 030493707X resp. ISBN 978-0304937073 . (English)
  • Floyd Clymer, Harry W. Gahagan: Floyd Clymer's Steam Car Scrapbook. Literary Licensing, LLC (July 14, 2012), ISBN 1258426994 resp. ISBN 978-1258426996 . (English)
  • John Heafield Bacon: American Steam-Car Pioneers: A Scrapbook. Newcomen Society of the United States; Paperback; 1st edition (December 1984), ISBN 9994065904 resp. ISBN 978-9994065905 . (English)
  • H. Walter Staner: The early days of motors and motor-driving - steam cars. Lightning Source UK Ltd., Milton Keynes UK, ISBN 9781445524870 ; Undated reprint of instructions for operating steam cars from the publisher of the specialist newspaper Autocar , approx. 1900. (English)
  • Anthony Bird: De Dion Bouton - First automobile Giant. Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car marque book No 6. (1971) Ballantine Books Inc., New York, No. 02322-6. (English)

Web links

Commons : Scotte vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company Register Albert Gieseler
  2. ^ Evans: Steam Cars (1985), pp. 69-70
  3. ↑ Bird: De Dion-Bouton (1971) p. 18
  4. ↑ a b c Georgano / Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicle (19791) p. 558
  5. ↑ La Nature, No. 1375, September 30, 1899, p. 518: Le Train Scotte.