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British Steam Car Team manager Frank Swanston dies from lung cancer complications

Aug 13th 2007 4:16PM - 0 Comments

A bit of sad news from the British Steam Car Team earlier this month: project manager Frank Swanston died unexpectedly of lung cancer complications on the first of August. His funeral will be Wednesday, and the family is asking that no flowers be ...

British Steam Car Team still on track

May 2nd 2008 6:03PM - 1 Comment

Despite the untimely death of project manager Frank Swanston from lung cancer, the British Steam Car Challenge is still on for a record attempt at the Bonneville Salt Flats in August of this year. Before assaulting the World Record, the British team ...

Update on the British Steam Car Challenge 200 mph record attempt

Jun 21st 2007 8:50AM - 3 Comments

Last fall, we alerted you to a land-speed record which is in serious danger of being broken. The record in question was set in 1906, and is for steam powered vehicles (like the one above). One might imagine that steam engines have not made ...

British Steam Car update: Check back tomorrow

Aug 20th 2009 6:54PM - 5 Comments

Yesterday, the British Steam Car Challenge team issued a release indicating that today would likely (finally) be the day that Fred Marriott's hundred-year-old officially recognized top speed record of 127 miles per hour in a Stanley steam car ...

British Steam Car record attempt delayed until August

Jul 30th 2009 5:10PM - 4 Comments

Who knew a World Speed Record set all the way back in 1906 at the Daytona Beach Road Course would be such a tough nut to crack? We've been following the British Steam Car Challenge and its team of would-be record setters for the last couple of ...

British steam car closes in on 127 mph record

Aug 20th 2009 8:01AM - 9 Comments

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/British_steam_car_closes_in_on_127_mph_record'; Finally, after over 100 years in the record books, Fred Marriott's officially recognized top speed in a steam-powered car is in serious danger of being eclipsed. ...

VIDEO: Record-setting British Steam Car in action

Aug 27th 2009 6:54PM - 6 Comments

British Steam Car - Click above to watch the video after the break So, you've been following the progress of the British Steam Car Challenge for the last few years – well, at least we've been following the team's progress that long – ...

Video: British steam car gets tested; 1906 record might fall

Dec 12th 2008 1:42PM - 3 Comments

Click above to watch a video of the steam car in action Has the time finally come to end the hundred-year drought on steam car design? Perhaps not, but the world may at least get a new entry in the record books, as the British Steam Car Challenge ...

British Steam Car Challenge sets world speed record. Finally.

Aug 25th 2009 5:04PM - 10 Comments

Finally, after much ado and a number of stalled attempts, the British Steam Car Challenge team has finally set the world record it has sought for so long. With an official two-way average of 139.843 miles per hour, the steam-powered streamliner ...

Clean Power Technologies developing a steam hybrid system

May 20th 2007 10:47AM - 5 Comments

British company Clean Power Technologies is working on a novel new type of hybrid powertrain. They are taking advantage of the fact in an internal combustion engine upwards of thirty-five percent of the energy in the fuel goes out the exhaust pipe ...

British steam car team suffers setback, record attempt still planned

Apr 2nd 2009 9:26AM - 2 Comments

We have good news and bad news to report regarding the British team that hopes to set a new land speed record for a steam-powered car. First, the bad: The car completely failed to operate during an important testing session that took place last ...

1906 steam powered car land speed record is in serious danger

Oct 29th 2006 1:25PM - 4 Comments

When you think of steam-powered travel you think of ... going 200 miles per hour in a rocket car, right? Good, because that's exactly what a team in Britain is trying to do next year as part of the British Steam Car Challenge. The team got good news ...

Will "Instant Steam" bring back the steam-powered car?

Aug 6th 2007 10:51AM - 3 Comments

Although the process of making what Oxford Catalysts calls "Instant Steam" is not feasible for power generation on a large-scale, it might work well in smaller-scale energy production, like automobiles. As a matter of fact, the gasoline internal ...

Year-end statement from Abdul A. Mitha, President and CEO of Clean Power Tech

Dec 28th 2006 1:54PM - 1 Comment

Abdul A. Mitha, president and CEO of Clean Power Technologies, claims that his company has made "amazing" and "fantastic" progress in 2006. This information is taken from his year-end open letter to shareholders. In the letter, he asks his ...

The Whirlygig Emoto: a flame-throwing, electric-steam hybrid motorcycle

Mar 21st 2008 5:35PM - 5 Comments

In case you are not faimiliar with the term "steampunk", it's a part of the literary sci-fi punk genre. Need more explanation? Consult the all-knowing wiki here. Now that we're all on the same page, check out this electric-steam hybrid motorcycle, ...

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