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The London Steam Carriage was an early steam-powered road vehicle constructed by Richard Trevithick in 1803 and the world's first self-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. Cugnot had built a steam vehicle 30 years previously, but that had been a slow-moving artillery tractor, not built to carry passengers.
Murdoch's model steam carriage of 1784, now in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum. Early research on the steam engine before 1700 was closely linked to the quest for self-propelled vehicles and ships [citation needed], the first practical applications from 1712 were stationary plant working at very low pressure which entailed engines of very large dimensions.
William Murdoch built and operated a steam carriage in model form in 1784. In 1791 he built a larger steam carriage which he had to abandon to do other work. Also William Symington built a steam carriage in 1786. There is an unsubstantiated story that a pair of Yorkshiremen, engineer Robert Fourness and his cousin, physician James Ashworth had ...
In 1881, the engineer John Inshaw built a steam carriage for use in Aston, Birmingham, UK. Capable of carrying ten people at speeds of up to 12 mph, Inshaw discontinued his experiments due to the legislation then in force. [5] Gillett & Co Steam bus licensed by the Metropolitan Police on 21 Jan 1899
A two seat steam carriage that ran on bicycle wheels. [26] Simpson: England: 1897–1904: A series of experimental vehicles made by John Simpson of Stirling. [25] [90] Squier: US: 1899: A small steam carriage built by W E Squier of Virginia City. [25] [31] [91] Stanley: US: 1897–1924: The twins Francis E Stanley and Freelan O Stanley produced ...
The steam railcar was revived in 1902 when Dugald Drummond of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) built two for a branch line near Portsmouth. [6] Steam railcars were introduced for two main reasons, either to compete with the new electric tramways that were abstracting traffic away in suburban areas or to provide an economic service on lightly used country branch lines. [7]
Trevithick's steam circus on which the locomotive Catch Me Who Can ran Salamanca. The first steam railway locomotive was introduced by Richard Trevithick in 1804. [12] He was the first engineer to build a successful high-pressure stationary steam engine, in 1799. He followed this with a road going steam carriage in 1801.
The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated a steam locomotive within the body of the carriage.