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1907 Stanley Steamer Semi-Racer Model K

The best known and most successful of all the steam-powered cars, the Stanley steamer was a product of the genius of Freelan O. and Francis E.Stanley. The brothers built their first steam car in 1897 and created a sensation everywhere they drove it. By created a sensation everywhere they drove it. By 1899 three more Stanley cars had been built, and one was driven to the top of mount Washington in new Hampshire, a tortuous ten-mile climb no other automobile had been able to complete until this time.

In 1905 the brothers began to enter speed trials held on the sandy beaches of the Florida coast. With Francis Stanley at the wheel, one of the steamers defeated a front-wheel-drive Christie, and a driver named Louis Ross drove a steamer to a new record of 38 seconds in the mile run.

Impressive as they were, these achievements were only preparation for the Stanley's all-out-assault on speed records during 1906 and 1907. For their racing campaign that year the brothers designed an unusual new  car with a streamlined boat like body. Its gasoline-fired boiler with a streamlined boat like body. Its gasoline-fired boiler, with a flue projecting through the top of the car was located behind the driver. The boiler had 1,476 tubes with 265 square feet of heating area to convert water to steam. At 800 pounds of pressure per square inch, the horizontal two-cylinder Stanley engine could produce 50 horsepower for a distance of ten miles.

Fred Marriott, one of the brother's longtime employees, drove the 1906 Stanley to victory in the Dewer Cup mile and the five-mile Open Championship. Marriott then entered the annals of automotive history by driving the Stanley to a new world land speed record. His speed of 127.56 miles per hour in the mile run and 121.57 miles per hour over a kilometer shattered the previous records by almost 20miles per hour.

In 1907 an even faster Stanley steamer appeared on the Florida sands. Called the Rocket. it looked like its predecessor. The similarity was only skin deep, however, for with a boiler that could sustain a pressure of 1,300 pounds per square inch, it represented the ultimate in early 20th-century steam technology.

Unfortunately, on its first attempt to set a new speed record, the car encountered a rough area in the sand and crashed. Marriott, who was behind the wheel, was injured and the car was destroyed. According to time recorded on F.E Stanley's stopwatch and measurements of the distance covered, Marriott would have reached a speed of 150 miles per hour, had he completed his run. Despite the crash. it was a remarkable achievement, but it spelled the end of the Stanley brother's racing careers. From then on they concentrated on building the steam-powered passenger cars for which they were so justly famed.
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