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The company continued to show them in their catalogues as late as 1912. About 10,000 White steam-powered cars were built, more than the better known Stanley. In 2019 Mitch Gross and Chris Rolph drove a 1910 model MM 40 hp White steam car from Beijing to Paris, likely the only time such a feat has been done by a steam car.
White steam touring car (1909) Stanley Steamer (1912) A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine.A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE).
The White Motor Company was an American automobile and truck manufacturer from 1900 until 1980. The company also produced bicycles, roller skates, automatic lathes, and sewing machines. Before World War II, the company was based in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1900 to 1911 White produced steam-powered cars before switching to gasoline. [25] [31] Wood: US
The record for steam-powered automobiles was not broken until 2009. [7] [8] Production rose to 519 cars in 1917. The Stanley Steamer was sometimes nicknamed "The Flying Teapot". [9] At least one Stanley Steamer found its way to Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia where it was driven in the late 1920s. [10]
Abner Doble built his first steam car between 1906 and 1909 while still in high school, with the assistance of his brothers. It was based on components salvaged from a wrecked White Motor Company steamer, driving a new engine of the Doble brothers' own design. It did not run particularly well, but it inspired the brothers to build two more ...
Taft's 1911 White steamer. President William Howard Taft changed things at the White House, converting the stables there to a garage and purchasing a four-car fleet [9] on a budget of $12,000 (equivalent to about $407,000 in 2023): [11] two "luxurious" Pierce-Arrow cars, a Baker Motor Vehicle electric car, and a $4,000 (equivalent to about $136,000 in 2023) 1911 White Motor Company steam car.
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Steam-powered showman's engine from England. The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.