Re: Stanley Boiler Question
Posted by: Ben in Maine (IP Logged)
Date: December 04, 2004 10:42PM
<HTML>Where where,,,oh great,,,now can we find if he had a grandson,,,If only the spirit survives,,,oops,sorry I was dreaming again,,,His spirit had no limits and got him in trouble,,,for those that havent read of his er ah as I recalll , spit in the starters face,,won the race,,,got disqulified,,,,they put him on the smallest of 3 cars,,an Guess who won,,,He ran a restaurant at LeMans as I recall,,,It was sort of like Mrs Crooks-Morris hotel at IOM,,,Her son ran the 500c class {SENIOR] for manny manny years,,That was THE place to stay in Douglas,,,Do you know what the B - S of the Durracq was,,,The Loco was called 120HP b-s //7.25 X 6'' = 986 I think,,,While off thread,,it may give some of the boys a idea of what the early 1000K class was all about,,,How many of these cars can we get to a single meet,,What good is a Vanderbilt Stanley without competition?? 1908 was the last year of the big class . Fred so embaressed the Europeans that the factory sponsored cars did not come back in 1907,,Now you will recall,of course that one of the factory Mercedes was driven by a professional chauffeur,,,part of the household staff of Kizar Willheim ,,, They all had a good party at Long Island,,Mr Stanley had planned on attending as he had seats in the 3rd row,1906 VCR,, Now a IMPORTANT question,,Does annyone know if Messrs Stanley were friends of Andrew Riker,,of Locomobile,,,Certainly they did business on patents etc,,,,Riker was issued a patent on the electric dynamometer in 1893 as I recall [from memory] wonder if it was similar to the one at Bridgeport in 1905-06 that they tested ALL Locomobiles on,,WOW ALL,,,so they advertised ,,Cheers Ben</HTML>