• Delivered new to New Zealand • Formerly part of the famous Gilltrap Collection • A no-expense-spared older restoration • Hydraulic brakes • Extensively recommissioned since acquisition in 2018 • Fully tested and ready to use Francis E and Freeland O Stanley were identical twins whose Stanley Dry Plate Company produced photographic equipment.

The brothers also designed steam cars, experimenting with a solitary prototype in 1887 before reviving the project in 1897.

By the following year they had built three more, one of which completed a spectacular demonstration in Charles River Park, Boston where it successfully scaled an 80ft incline that had defeated its rivals.

Orders for 200 cars resulted and the Stanleys were in business.

That first design was sold to John Brisben Walker and manufactured as the 'Locomobile', while the Stanleys progressed to a non-condensing engine driving the rear axle directly, with a rear-mounted boiler, production of which commenced in 1902.

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