Over 120 years ago, two men climbed Pikes Peak in a new kind of steam-powered vehicle - the locomobile Alexia MacClain Two men set off to ascend a mountain located in Colorado called Pikes Peak. Their ...
The famous Stanley Steamer was invented in Boston in 1898 and manufactured in Bridgeport, Connecticut, soon after. So popular was the steam car that the locomobile became the best-selling car in the ...
A 1950s magazine article ignited Don Davidson’s passion for steam cars. He recalls: “It told how quiet they were, how speedy they were, how they didn’t pollute and how there was no shifting of gears ...
Locomobile”s founders are John Brisben Walker (editor and publisher of Cosmopolitan magazine) and Amzi Lorenzo Barber (who made a fortune from the asphalt business, and put up $250,000 to buy the ...
SOUTH BEND - As William U. Martin traveled the streets of South Bend in 1901 on his business appointments as a piano tuner, the little Locomobile steamer he drove captured the public eye. Afterall, it ...
SOUTH BEND - As William U. Martin traveled the streets of South Bend in 1901 on his business appointments as a piano tuner, the little Locomobile steamer he drove captured the public eye. Afterall, it ...
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