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About quiz 224: American Steamer
You could be forgiven for mistaking the ‘radiator’ of last week’s quiz car as that from a Lincoln. In fact it was the steam condenser. We gave you a clue as not to hide behind a cloud and looking at the
chassis, you could have guessed it belonged to a steamer. But which one? It wasn’t a Doble, not a Brooks, not a Stanley and certainly not the Pan made in St.Cloud :-). Only five entrants (including jury members Henk Visscher and Kit Foster) came up with the correct make: American Steamer! We found it a very difficult task to choose between the answers of Eric Gleason, Eric Kieboom and Alan Sutton, because they all had the details more or less correct. Finally we decided to award the T-shirt to Eric Kieboom as his answer was the most complete: “This is the American Steam Phaeton, completed on June 10, 1922 and shown at the Chicago Pageant of Progress in August 1922. It had a two-cylinder, double-acting compound engine and a
water-tube boiler with a 500-600psi pressure. Fuel (25 gallons) was kerosene and max speed was 65 Mph with a 250-mile range. The
prototype was built in 1918, underwent 25 months of testing, doing 30,000 miles. The cars were built by the American Steam Truck Company in Elgin, Illinois. A production run of 100 was planned, but it is estimated only about 16 to 20 were actually produced.” Congratulations to Eric Kieboom!
(RB)
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Friday, 18 April 2008
You could be forgiven for mistaking the ‘radiator’ of last week’s quiz car as that from a Lincoln. In fact it was the steam condenser. We gave you a clue as not to hide behind a cloud and looking at the chassis, you could have guessed it belonged to a steamer. But which one? It wasn’t a Doble, not a Brooks, not a Stanley and certainly not the Pan made in St.Cloud :-). Only five entrants (including jury members Henk Visscher and Kit Foster) came up with the correct make: American Steamer! We found it a very difficult task to choose between the answers of Eric Gleason, Eric Kieboom and Alan Sutton, because they all had the details more or less correct. Finally we decided to award the T-shirt to Eric Kieboom as his answer was the most complete: “This is the American Steam Phaeton, completed on June 10, 1922 and shown at the Chicago Pageant of Progress in August 1922. It had a two-cylinder, double-acting compound engine and a water-tube boiler with a 500-600psi pressure. Fuel (25 gallons) was kerosene and max speed was 65 Mph with a 250-mile range. The prototype was built in 1918, underwent 25 months of testing, doing 30,000 miles. The cars were built by the American Steam Truck Company in Elgin, Illinois. A production run of 100 was planned, but it is estimated only about 16 to 20 were actually produced.” Congratulations to Eric Kieboom! (RB)
