Steamobile
{{short description|Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Trinity Cycle Manufacturing Company
Steamobile Company of America
| logo = 1901 Steamobile logo from advertisement in Automobile Topics.jpg
| logo_size = 280px
| logo_caption = Steamobile logo from advertisement
| image = 1901 Steamobile advertisement - Automobile Topics.jpg
| image_size = 260px
| image_caption = 1901 Steamobile advertisement from Automobile Topics
| industry = Automotive
| founded = {{Start date and age|1900}}
| defunct = {{end date and age|1902}}
| fate = Sold
| hq_location = Keene, New Hampshire
| hq_location_country = United States
| key_people = Reynald Janney, E. P. Wells, Winfield S. Rogers
| products = Steam car
| production = unknown
| production_year = 1900-1902
| brands = Steamobile
}}
Image:Steamobile 1901 at Regent Street Motor Show 2009.jpg
The Steamobile was an American steam car manufactured in Keene, New Hampshire, from 1900 until 1902, first by the Trinity Cycle Manufacturing Company and its successor, the Steamobile Company of America.{{Kimes-USCars3rd}}
History
Reynold Janney factory superintendent of the Trinity Cycle Manufacturing Company developed a steam car that he marketed in the fall of 1900. The Keene Steamobile was powered by a two-cylinder double-acting 7/9-hp engine, with a water-tube boiler with 420 copper tubes and priced at $850, {{Inflation|US|850|1900|fmt=eq}}.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1fAwAQAAMAAJ&q=steamobile |title=Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine |date=1900 |publisher=Horseless age Company |language=en}} Janney organized the Keene Automobile Company which was purchased in February 1901 by E. P. Wells and Winfield S. Rogers and the newly formed Steamobile Company of America. Reynold Janney departed and became superintendent of the Locomobile Works for two years.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhvmAAAAMAAJ&dq=reynold+janney&pg=PA369 |title=The Horseless Age |date=1903 |publisher=Horseless Age Company |language=en}} W. S. Rogers became the new factory superintendent and added a dos-a-dos model priced at $900.
In 1901 Steamobile displayed at the Pan-American Exposition,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nXmAAAAMAAJ&dq=keene+steamobile&pg=RA10-PA94 |title=Automobile Review |date=1901 |publisher=L.L. Bligh |language=en}} and added a new model called a Transit that had a tonneau body up front. Advertised as a railroad inspection car or package delivery it was available for $1,000, {{Inflation|US|1000|1901|fmt=eq}}.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePNYAAAAYAAJ&q=steamobile |title=Automobile Topics |date=1901 |publisher=E.E. Schwarzkopf |language=en}} F. Wilkinson & Co. of Manchester became the sole agent for Steamobile in Great Britain and displayed at the 1902 Royal Agricultural Hall Motor Show.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0UfAQAAMAAJ&dq=keene+steamobile&pg=PA86 |title=The Motor Car Journal}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkI-AQAAMAAJ&q=steamobile |title=The Motor World |date=1902 |publisher=Motor World Publishing Company |language=en}}
E. P. Wells and W. S. Rogers set-up a new company called the Roller Bearing and Equipment Company of America in the Steamobile factory.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YLLFaedm5IIC&q=steamobile |title=American Machinist |date=1901 |publisher=McGraw-Hill. |language=en}} In June 1902 Standard Roller Bearing of Philadelphia purchased the Steamobile Company and the Roller Bearing company factory at Keene, which included 40 unsold Steamobiles.
File:1901 Steamobile - Jan 1901 Horseless Age.jpg|1901 Steamobile Stanhope in the Horseless Age
File:1901 Steamobile - W. S. Rogers driving in Feb 1902 Automobile Topics.jpg|1902 Steamobile - W. S. Rogers driving from Automobile Topics
File:1901 Steamobile Transit - Automobile Topics.jpg|1901 Steamobile Transit with front tonneau from Automobile Topics
File:1901 Steamobile Transit Parcel - Automobile Topics.jpg|1901 Steamobile Transit configured for parcels from Automobile Topics
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://virtualsteamcarmuseum.org/makers/steamobile_company_of_america.html Steamobile Company of America at the VirtualSteamCarMuseum.com]
Category:Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Category:Defunct manufacturing companies based in New Hampshire
Category:Cars introduced in 1900
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1900
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1902
Category:Companies based in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Category:1900 establishments in New Hampshire
Category:1902 disestablishments in New Hampshire
Category:Cars discontinued in 1902
{{Commons category|Steamobile Company of America}}