Download or read book Steam Traction on the Road written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.
Download or read book History and Development of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads written by William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English and American Steam Carriages and Traction Engines written by William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Traction on the Road From Trevithick to Sentinel 150 Years of Design and Development written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That these attempts ultimately failed was largely due to opposition by road authorities and draconian legislation. Steam power did, however, find a real purpose in agriculture, where the traction engine was used for a variety of tasks from towing and working threshing machines, to ploughing. Once the value of the traction engine had been established, it soon found a use in many parts of the world for heavy haulage work and appeared in an exotic guise as the showman's engine. The latter was not only used to haul rides to fairgrounds but also powered a dynamo that could light up the fair at night. By the end of the nineteenth century, steam on the road took on a new life with the development of steam cars and trucks. For a time they vied the new internal combustion engine for supremacy on the road. The American Doble Company even developed a 100mph steam sports car. Ultimately steam lost the war, but steam vehicles survive and delight us still thanks to enthusiastic owners and restorers.
Download or read book Traction Engines written by Derek A. Rayner and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traction engines steam engines to haul loads on the roads developed in the mid 1860s and were usually dirty, noisy and somewhat crude to handle. This book brings together much information about these engines, from the earliest to the latest, about how they worked and what they did. Attention is also given to the various derivatives of the traction engine the humble portable, the well-known steam roller, the steam tractor, majestic road locomotive, ploughing engine and, last but not least, the King of the Road, the glorious and glittering showman's engine. The informative text is accompanied by illustrations that show something of the age in which traction engines worked and of the age when they became treasured historic relics. Engines appear at rallies and other events all over Great Britain and in many other countries. On these occasions they are visited and admired by thousands of people and are now part of our engineering heritage.
Download or read book History of Steam Road Vehicles Mainly for Passenger transport written by C. St. C. B. Davison and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanical Traction in War for Road Transport with Notes on Automobiles Generally written by Otfried Layriz and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Steam Road Wagons written by William Norris and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Traction Engines Wagons and Rollers in Colour written by Brian Johnson and published by Diamond Farm Book Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Worked with Traction Engines written by Jack Hampshire and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Hampshire grew up in the early years of the 20th Century in Sussex, where his father owned a threshing and haulage business. From an early age he was looking after steam traction engines, and driving them on the road when barely in his teens. This is his memoirs of this time in his life, which lasted until the firm shut in 1928, and is an almost unique telling of what it was really like to work with road steam on a commercial basis.
Download or read book On the Rise and Progress of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads written by John Head and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on the rise and progress of steam locomotion on common roads.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Steam Traction Engines written by Jack Norbeck and published by Crestline. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Vehicles of the Road written by Kevin Lomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father, as well as being a engineering toolmaker, was a writer, writing articles for magazines. One of his subjects was steam engines, mainly road-use ones: 'Traction Engines'. As well as gathering some photos from many places, he also took many photos himself between the 1950s and mid-1970s and I have recently found some of them, both the ones he took himself and the ones he obtained and here they are in this photo album.
Download or read book The Economy of Steam Power on Common Roads written by Charles Frederic T. Young and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Up Traction Engines on Parade written by David Reed and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated celebration of traction engines. Featuring showman’s engines, heavy haulage engines, steam lorries, tractors and road rollers.
Download or read book A Manual of the Steam engine written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
