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

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 team has successfully put their land-speed record car to the test. The aforementioned record was set all the way back in 1906 by Fred Marriott, who drove a modified Stanley Steamer to 127.659 miles per hour. Early testing of the British Steam Car has been promising, though nothing up near the stated goal of 170 miles per hour has yet been attempted. ... Read more →

Clean Power Technologies still working on new steam-assisted cars Jeremy Korzeniewski

There have been a few companies which have been working on new applications of steam power for our automobiles, some of which are well known, such as BMW, and others just now coming out of the ...

British Steam Car Team still on track Jeremy Korzeniewski

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. ...

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

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 ...

Update on the British Steam Car Challenge 200 mph record attempt Jeremy Korzeniewski

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 ...

Video: British steam car gets tested; 1906 record might fall 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 team has successfully put their land-speed record car to the test. The aforementioned record was set all ...

Clean Power Technologies still working on new steam-assisted cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There have been a few companies which have been working on new applications of steam power for our automobiles, some of which are well known, such as BMW, and others just now coming out of the woodwork. One such company is Clean Power Technologies based in the U.K. One common thread from these new ...

British Steam Car Team still on track 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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 will first tackle the standing record in their ...

Will "Instant Steam" bring back the steam-powered car? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

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 combustion engine that we all have in our cars ...

Update on the British Steam Car Challenge 200 mph record attempt 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

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 significant advances since then, but that would be untrue. ...


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