Stanley Motor Carriage Co. - 1909-1916 - Newton, Massachusetts


   

The best-known commercial vehicle made by the cele­brated steam car builders was the Mountain Wagon, a 12­passenger open-sided hotel bus originally developed to serve the Stanley Hotel at Estes Park, Colorado, built by the Stanley brothers. Later, many other hotels and organ­izations used Mountain Wagons, and one is still in regular service today, at the Magic Age of Steam Museum at Yorklyn, Delaware. They were powered by a 30 hp 2­cylinder engine which was in fact a detuned and lower geared version of that used in the larger of the 'Gentle­man's Speedy Roadsters'. The Mountain Wagon was made from 1909 to 1916, and was supplemented by deliv­ery vans and trucks for 1,500 lbs., 1 ton and 1 ¼ ton capacity.

Commercial vehicles were not listed after 1916, but two attempts to revive the firm both involved trucks and buses. The first was in 1924 when an organization called the Steam Vehicle Corp. of America was formed to make cars at Newton and commercial vehicles in the former Watson truck plant at Canastota, N.Y. Nothing came of this, nor of announcements in 1935 and 1936 that Stanley steam buses would be made by the Stanley Steam Motors Corp. of Chicago.

 

   

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Denis Miller - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trucks and Buses

Susan Meikle Mandell - A Historical Survey of Transit Buses in the United States

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