Stanley Rocket Steamer
The Stanley Rocket Steamer was a steam-powered speed record car designed by the US Stanley Motor Carriage Company .
record
Fred Marriott achieved a world speed record of 205.44 km / h with the Rocket Steamer on January 26, 1906 on the Daytona Beach Road Course on Daytona Beach . With a time of 28.2 seconds over the mile , Marriott was the first person to go faster than 200 km / h. The red Rocket Steamer was more reminiscent of an "overturned canoe on wheels" than a record car. The speed over the kilometer was measured in 18.4 seconds (195.65 km / h), only this record was officially recognized.
Almost exactly a year after the record drive, Marriott wanted to improve the record. During this journey he came across a heavily furrowed point on the track, skid and overturned. Marriott was seriously injured. It wasn't until August 2009 that Marriott's record was broken with a British steam car in the Mojave Desert .
Technical specifications
- Drive: two-cylinder steam engine with 3376 cm³ displacement (114.3 mm bore and 165 mm stroke)
- Power: 150 HP (short term) at a steam pressure of 60 bar .
- Boiler: 762 mm diameter with 1475 copper tubes and 26.45 m² heating surface
- Construction: wooden body
- Wheels: 34 inch tires with 4.2 bar air pressure
- Total weight: 993 kg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ferdinand CW Käsmann: World record vehicles . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-527-9 , pp. 32 + 329.
- ^ A b c Paul Clifton: The fastest men on earth. New York, 1964. (German translation 1968, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart) pp. 65–69.
- ^ Leonard JK Setright: The Guinness Book of Car Facts and Feats . Guinness Superlatives, Enfield 1982, ISBN 0-85112-207-8 , p. 187.
- ↑ dpa / hil: Steam engine record: The fastest tea kettle in the world. In: Spiegel Online . August 26, 2009. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .