Scotte steam car
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The Scotte steam car is an early French automobile with steam propulsion .
The hat maker J. Scotte, who was born as Crotte but changed his name to Scotte, was early involved in the construction of steam cars . Correspondence with Trépardoux & Cie. in Puteaux (later De Dion-Bouton ) from 1886.
Scotte manufactured at least two steam cars in Épernay between 1892 and 1893 before founding the Sociéte de Chaudières et de Voitures à Vapeur in Paris around 1893 for their commercial production. One of these early steam cars was built as an open wagonette for a private customer.
Paris - Rouen
The second known Scotte steam car has a two-piston engine. The coal-fired boiler is located in the bow; it is surmounted by a large chimney . The power is transmitted with belts. Both axles are suspended from semi-elliptical leaf springs, with those on the rear axle being additionally supported by another leaf spring that is turned around and mounted transversely at the end of the chassis. The driver's compartment is open on the sides and is covered by a canopy through which the chimney is led. Access to the rear is via a door in the rear. The vehicle offers space for six people and was called an omnibus . The maximum speed is 12 km / h. Scotte took part in the Paris - Rouen race with this vehicle in 1894 , but did not finish. Subsequently, he received an "encouragement prize" worth FF 500 from the organizing newspaper Le Petit Journal , made possible by private donors.
The Scotte steam car today
The vehicle has been preserved and can be viewed in the Musée Henri Malartre in Rochetaillée-sur-Saône . Like numerous other vehicles in this collection, it was the subject of a miniature replica by the small toy manufacturer RAMI by JMK (No. 22, published 1965). The abbreviations stand for R étrospectives A utomobiles M iniatures (for example "automobile miniature retrospect") and the surnames of the owners, J arry, M alartre and K och.
literature
- Author collective: Steam. The collection of steam vehicles. Musée Henri Malartre, Rochetaillée. (English)
- 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
- Photo (accessed March 5, 2013)
- teamdan.com: Grand Prix 1894 (English, accessed April 17, 2014)
- Gallica, French online archive: Le Petit Journal from Tuesday, July 24, 1894 with a report on the awards of the Paris-Rouen race (French, accessed on July 18, 2014)
- RAMI-by-JMK.com: collector's website for RAMI models; No. 22 Scotte voiture à vapeur-1892 with photos of the original vehicle (French, accessed July 17, 2014)
- Collector's page for RAMI models (French, accessed July 4, 2014)
- carmodel.com: collectors website for car models; RAMI No. 22 Scotte (English, accessed July 17, 2014)