The 1906 Stanley Steam Car - The Fastest Car In The World
1906 Stanley Steam Car - The Fastest Car In The World The steam engine in the Rocket was exactly like the regular Stanly Steamers, except that it was larger or about twice the size of the Stanley touring Car (Model F). The Rocket's weight was 1,600 pounds. Boiler size was 30 inches in diameter and 18 inches deep and contained 1,475 tubes and had a total heating surface of 285 square feet. Operating steam pressure was 800 to 900 pounds. Wheels were 34 inches in diameter and equipped with 3 inch tires.
1906 - Fred Marriott's Record Run On Ormond Beach Louis S. Ross, with the Stanley Brothers assistance, built a Stanley steam engine equipped steam racer in 1905. The automobile was nicknamed the "Wogglebug" and was entered in the January 1905 Ormond Beach tournament. Louis S. Ross won the Dewar Trophy and nearly every other race on the Beach.
Louis S. Ross Stanley Powered Steam Racing Car Prior to the 1905 and 1906 Ormond Beach tournament F. E. Stanley raced stock cars. His first special racing machine was built in 1903. He drove this streamlined American Automobile racer he called the "Torpedo" to a world record at the Readville, MA race track on May 30, 1903. Stanley equipped steam racers also won races at the "Climb To The Clouds" at Mt. Washington in NH in the years 1904 and 1905.
F. E. Stanley With His Steam Powered Torpedo Racer
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