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The Grout car company began manufacture with a typical light steam buggy with a 2-cylinder 4hp engine and single chain drive. An unusual model was the Grout New Home Coupé, a completely enclosed coupé on a very short wheelbase which looked like a mobile sentry box. From about 1903 the Grout steamers began to look more like ordinary cars, although the bonnet on Grout cars was circular and had a single headlamp mounted in the centre, locomotive style. One Grout model continued the locomotive appearance with an enormous cos watcher to act as a bumper.
The last Grout steamer, a 12hp 2-cylinder model, appeared in 1905, and a year earlier the Grout company had introduced a petrol-engined car with a 30hp 4-cylinder engine and shaft drive. Few of these Grout cars were made as the Grout car company was often in financial difficulties from 1905 onwards. The earlier Grout steamers were sold in England under the name Weston.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GNG
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