Stanton Manufacturing Company

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The Stanton Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of steam cars .

description

The New England Motor Carriage Company in Waltham, Massachusetts separated from its automobile production in 1899. This was taken over by Stanton and continued from 1900 to 1901.

The new Stanton Steamer corresponded to its predecessor, the New England Steamer , but received a reinforced chassis. In addition, the two-seater runabout , which was the only version offered so far, was accompanied by a four-seater Surrey .

The Stanton Steamer was a four-wheeled, lightweight vehicle inspired by the bicycle construction of its original designers. It had wire-spoke wheels and a lever instead of a steering wheel. The power was generated by two small high-pressure steam engines and transmitted to the rear axle via a drive chain. The burner ran on gasoline. After the improvements mentioned, the vehicle should have weighed a good 280 kg as a two-seater and around 300 kg as a four-seater. Only a few copies were built, production ended around 1901.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes (ed.), Henry Austin Clark Jr.: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1996, ISBN 0-87341-428-4 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2nd Edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 . (English)
  • Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Editor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X . (English)
  • Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album). Shire Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-85263-774-8 . (English)
  • Anthony Bird, Edward Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu: Steam Cars, 1770-1970. Littlehampton Book Services, 1971, ISBN 0-304-93707-X . (English)
  • Floyd Clymer, Harry W. Gahagan: Floyd Clymer's Steam Car Scrapbook. Literary Licensing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-258-42699-6 . (English)
  • John Heafield Bacon: American Steam-Car Pioneers: A Scrapbook. Newcomen Society of the United States. 1st edition. 1984, ISBN 99940-65-90-4 . (English) beginnings; Sylvester A. Roper; George A. Long; George E. Whitney
  • H. Walter Staner: The early days of motors and motor-driving - steam cars. Lightning Source, Milton Keynes UK, ISBN 978-1-4455-2487-0 . (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). Ballantine Books, New York 1971, ISBN 0-345-02322-6 . (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kimes (1996), p. 1040.
  2. ↑ Kimes (1996), pp. 1582-1583.