Timeline: Steam Road Vehicles
A list of the events associated with steam driven road vehicles in chronological order
1769 and 1771 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot: Fardier à vapeur (three-wheeled steam road vehicles)
1781 William Murdoch and his model steam carriage
1786 William Symington Built a steam carriage that was exhibited in Edinburgh
1801 Richard Trevithick produces the Puffing Devil
1810 George Medhurst had designed and built a steam carriage
1814 Thomas Tudal of York, took out patents for a steam carriage
1815 Dodd and Stephenson patent improvements concerning contact of surfaces to obtain propulsion.
1816 Loch and Stevenson patent improvements of supporting weight on the machinery on pistons which act as springs.
1818 Mr. Webster lectures and demonstrates a working model of a steam carriage [1] [2]
c1820 David Napier builds a steam carriage for passenger hire
1820 George Medhurst demonstrated his steam carriage at Paddington
1821 A cotton-spinner of Ardwick near Manchester builds a steam carriage [3]
1822 Julius Griffith builds a steam carriage [4]
1822 'The Technical Repository' publishes an article on a 'patent steam carriage' [5][6]
1822 'The Kaleidoscope' to publish an article on a steam carriage
1823 Samuel Brown applies his gas-vacuum engine to the propulsion of a carriage.[7]
1824 David Gordon of Claremont Square, London patents a steam locomotive carriage
1824 Henry Bell. Claims that he constructed a steam carriage for the road but the high-pressure engine was suppressed by parliament [8]
1824 W. H. James, an engineer of Birmingham and Thavies Inn, London, takes out a patent for a steam carriage for highways [9][10]
1824 Mr. Gough trials a steam carriage on the Stockport Road, Manchester. First trials were two years previous. Factory collapses in October. [11] [12]
1824 Letter explaining why a steam road carriage will not work [13] [14]
1825 Matthew Broemark, a mathematician of Denmark drives a steam carriage with passengers to Copenhagen [15] [16]
1825 John Seaward and his brother Samuel Seaward granted a patent for 'propelling locomotive engines, vehicles, and other carriages...a steam-engine'
1825 Josiah Easton of Bradford patents a locomotive steam carriage
1825 Patent Steam Carriage Co formed and shares issued
1825 Major McCurdy applied his steam apparatus to a carriage for the common road.[17]
1826 Timothy Burstall with trials of a steam carriage - Burstall and Hill
1827 James Neville of Shad Thames patents a steam carriage
1827 Frederick Andrews of Stanford Rivers, Essex patents an invention for a locomotive steam carriage.[18]
1828 Samuel Brown (of Brompton) applied a gas vacuum engine for carriages
1829 Goldsworthy Gurney travels from Bath to London and back in his steam carriage
1829 Walter Hancock runs a steam bus between Fulham and Brompton
1831 William Muir constructs a steam carriage for Maudslay, Sons and Field
1831 Summers and Ogle ran a steam carriage from Southampton to London
1831 James Stone runs steam carriages in Gloucester area
1832 London and Birmingham Steam Carriage Co formed around the designs of William Church
1832 Incorporated General Steam Carriage Co formed
1833 Charles Dance runs a steam carriage service between Cheltenham and Gloucester and later from London to Brighton
1833 Francis Maceroni and John Squire ran a steam carriage between Paddington and Edgware
1833 London and Paddington Steam Carriage Co with D. Redmund in existence
1833 Birmingham General Steam Carriage Co formed
1835 John Scott Russell designs and has built a 26-seat steam coach
1841 Hills's Patent Steam Coach ran between Deptford and Sevenoaks
1844 General Steam Carriage Co formed
1862 Yarrow and Hilditch build an 11-seater steam carriage
1868 John Henry Knight built a 3-seat steam driven vehicle
1898 Mann's patent steam cart made by Mann and Charlesworth
1899 Steam Wagon and Carriage Works
1900 The first Foden steam lorry was produced
1901 Simpson and Bibby's steam wagon - the company later became Sentinel, maker of steam wagons
1901 Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Friday, Mar 27, 1818
- ↑ The Leeds Mercury, Saturday, March 27, 1819
- ↑ The Times, Monday, Nov 05, 1821
- ↑ The Leeds Mercury, Saturday, October 5, 1822
- ↑ The Morning Post, Monday, May 13, 1822
- ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 26 December 1827
- ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 26 December 1827
- ↑ Liverpool Mercury etc, Friday, November 5, 1824
- ↑ Berrow's Worcester Journal, Thursday, July 08, 1824
- ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 26 December 1827
- ↑ The Morning Post, Wednesday, September 15, 1824
- ↑ The Morning Chronicle, Saturday, October 16, 1824
- ↑ The Morning Post, Thursday, November 18, 1824
- ↑ Liverpool Mercury etc, Friday, January 7, 1825
- ↑ The Morning Post, Tuesday, May 10, 1825
- ↑ The Times, Tuesday, May 10, 1825
- ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 26 December 1827
- ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 26 December 1827
News vault for 'steam carriage' to 1st July 1826 (Gurney)