Photo Gallery «Stanley Steamer 1896-1924 - powerful steam mobiles»

There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Stanley Steamer, which built steam cars between 1896 and 1924. These were characterized by high performance and reached a record speed of over 195 km/h in 1906. With the advent of the electric starter, steam mobiles with their half-hour warm-up time became less important despite their fabulous, merely slightly hissing torque development, and Stanley disappeared in 1924