Grenville steam Carriage

The Grenville steam car is a very early British steam Carriage automobile first built in 1875 .

History

The Briton Robert Neville Grenville Butleigh Court at Glastonbury in Somerset introduced in 1875 with the help of George Jackson Churchward, who later became head of the locomotive department in the Great Western Railway , was a steam car forth.

The vehicle has three wheels, a small front and two large rear. The three wheels each consist of 16 segments of solid teakwith an iron band. The vehicle has a frame that carries the boiler , the engine and the wheel suspensions. The suspensionis via leaf suspension on the wheels. The steam boiler, which has more than 50 water pipes, probably comes from Shand Mason & Co. The steam boiler operates at 8 bar pressure and has a heating surface of 2.7 m². A water pumpsupplies the boiler with water from a water tank located under the vehicle. The water capacity in the boiler is 158 liters, as well as 227 liters in the tank. Originally a single-cylinder engine was mounted, which was later replaced by a two-cylinder engine. The cylinder bore is 127 mm, the piston stroke 152.4 mm. The engine drives the rear axle via a two-speed gearbox and a differential . The driver controls the tiller steering and the engine power.

 According to the then law, a second person, the brakeman, had to operate the brake. When the brake pedal is pressed, a wooden block brake ensures a delay. The vehicle can accommodate four passengers. The maximum speed is stated at arund 19 mph about 32 km / h. The consumption of the vehicle is about 14.2 liters of water and 1.7 kg of coal per kilometer. The vehicle is 350 cm and 170 cm wide. The source indicates as vehicle height 8 feet and 3 inches and in the metric system 320 cm, but these values ​​do not match, because 8 feet 3 inches are only 251 cm. The vehicle weighs 2330 kg.

The vehicle was used until 1902. Before the Second World War it received as a result of a complete overhaul a new steam boiler and a new rear axle. In 1947, the nephew of the builder donated it to the Bristol Industrial Museum . After another overhaul in 1976, the vehicle was occasionally in some events such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in November 2000 commissioned. After the Bristol Industrial Museum was dissolved, the vehicle came to the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu in the UK.