The Standard Steam Car was an American

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manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of

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from 1920 until 1921.

History

L. L. Scott and E. C. Newcomb developed a steam car claimed to be able to raise a full head of steam within a minute. . Also known as the Scott-Newcomb, it featured a front condenser that resembled a

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shaped radiator and was similar in appearance to the Roamer. The car had a twin-cylinder horizontal steam

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and used

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for fuel. The boiler pressure was stated as 600psi. The Scott-Newcomb Motor Car Company was formed for production but only one

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is known to have been built; the company may have produced as many as five vehicles before folding. A 3-page article from 1920 on technical aspects of the Standard Steam Car appears in Floyd Clymer's Historical Motor Scrapbook, Steam Car Edition, published in 1945.

External links

Standard Engineering at the VirtualSteamCarMuseum

References

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