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1900 Locomobile Type 2 5½hp Spindle-Seat Runabout
Bonhams • UK • 1 Nov 2024
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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1900 Locomobile Type 2 5½hp Spindle-Seat Runabout
UK • 1 Nov 2024
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This Locomobile steam car, believed to be imported from the USA, has been under single-family ownership since 1974. Restored over the last 20 years, it comes with a boiler and hydraulics Examination Certificate issued in July 2024, ensuring its good running order and well-maintained condition.
Condition
6
The car appears to be in good running order, with work having been carried out on it over several years. The bodywork may have undergone restoration at some point in the car's history, though the style has been closely adhered to. The undercarriage appears to be original and of the correct design.
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A 147
1900
Auction
RHD
United Kingdom
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1900 Locomobile Type 2 5½hp Spindle-Seat Runabout
Bonhams • UK • 1 Nov 2024
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Description
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One of the most successful early steam cars • Believed imported from the USA • Single family ownership since 1974 • Restored over the last 20 years • Boiler and hydraulics Examination Certificate issued in July 2024 Entrepreneurs A L Barber and J B Walker formed The Locomobile Company in 1899 having purchased the rights from the Stanley Brothers to manufacture a steam car to the Stanleys' design.
Locomobile's first car left the Newton, Massachusetts works in 1899.
This was a lightweight four-wheeler with wire wheels, its coachwork borrowing much from the horse-drawn era, which was powered by a twin-cylinder engine with a 14" boiler beneath the driver's seat.
Power was progressively increased and by 1900 a 5.5hp model was the norm.
Steering was by a right-side tiller and final drive by a single blockchain with a contracting brake operating on the open-drive differential.
Fully elliptic springs (transverse at the front) provided a comfortable ride on the primitive roads in its co...
Price Analysis vs Other Type 2s
£29,812
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£30,431
Median Price (Since 2020)
£31,050
Highest Price (Since 2020)
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