£31,050 (Est: £28,000 - £32,000)
1900 Locomobile 5 ½hp Type 2 Spindle Seat Runabout
Bonhams • UK • 31 Oct 2025
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£31,050 (Est: £28,000 - £32,000)
1900 Locomobile 5 ½hp Type 2 Spindle Seat Runabout
UK • 31 Oct 2025
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This is a 1900 Locomobile 5 1/2hp Type 2 Spindle Seat Runabout, a successful early steam car believed to be imported from the USA. It has been under single-family ownership since 1974 and has been restored over the last 20 years, with a boiler and hydraulics Examination Certificate issued in July 2024.
Condition
6
The car has been restored over the last 20 years and has a new boiler manufactured in 2018. The bodywork may have undergone restoration. There is wear visible in paint, interior, or wheels. It requires some reconditioning.
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DVLASWA3972504507
RHD
United Kingdom
BS 8784
1900
Auction
£31,050 (Est: £28,000 - £32,000)
1900 Locomobile 5 ½hp Type 2 Spindle Seat Runabout
Bonhams • UK • 31 Oct 2025
Market Position:
Highest 10% of Past Sales
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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...
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£29,812
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£30,431
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£31,050
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