Stanley Steamers were used to travel the road over the 12,070 foot summit in
Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, CO over eighty years ago. The
only reliable cars for the job.
Don't know that I would want to rely on the brakes they used in those days.
People say that well adjusted mechanical brakes are very good ... I'll take
their word for it. I have yet to drive a car with well adjusted mechanical
brakes myself.
Wes
on 9/7/01 9:17 AM, john robinson at john@engr.wisc.edu wrote:
> At 10:48 AM 9/7/01, you wrote:
> That sounds like a lot of work to boost the record 20MPH from 1907. Bob on
> connecticut
>
> howdy,
> yup it is, the Lear turbine was about 7 inches in dia. if I recall
> correctly, but you gotta have a GREAT BIG boiler, I think he ran 5000 PSI
> in it.
> The Stanley Steamer weighed in at 1200 LBS but it was a lot of
> wood, including parts of the frame, such as it was....also running
> something like 1400 PSI in a fire tube boiler, looked like a 60's Soap Box
> Derby car, flat bottom, canoe ends. it later crashed heavily on the sands
> of Daytona at possibly over 150, the Stanley Brothers stopped racing after
> that.
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