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Below is a list of Steam Wagon makers and links to images of surviving engines as well as details on the respective companies that built them. This list will grow in time. CHARLES BURRELL & SONS LTD. CLAYTON & SHUTTLEWORTH LTD. CLAYTON WAGONS LTD RANSOMES, SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD JOHN I.THORNYCROFT CO. LTD WALLIS & STEEVENS LTD. YORKSHIRE PATENT STEAM WAGON CO. |
Here we find a very brief outline of what a Steam Wagon is. In time this section will be added to in much fuller detail to describe the development of the Steam Wagon.
The earliest steam lorries came in two basic forms. The earlier over-type designs resembled traction engines by having a cab built around a horizontal boiler with a round smokebox and chimney (eg Foden). And they resembled lorries in having a load-carrying body and being built around a chassis (so they cannot really be called traction engines).
The more modern under-type designs have the engine under the chassis (although the boiler remains in the cab), and generally resemble lorries rather than traction engines.
Early examples of either type had solid tyres, but various developments, including vertical boilers, enclosed cabs and pneumatic tyres were tried by companies such as the Sentinel Waggon Works in a bid to compete with internal combustion engine -powered lorries.