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    with his twin brother Freelan Oscar Stanley, of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company which built the Stanley Steamer. He and his twin brother, Freelan Oscar...
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    witnessed eight white rockets fired into the air over a strange ship off in the distance. Fatigued after 17 hours on duty, Captain Stanley Lord was awakened...
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    acquiring a Steamer in 1901. "If the electric [automobile] is a 'peach,'" he once remarked, "then the Stanley is a 'peacherina.'" The original Stanley auto patents...
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    selling and best known steam car was the Stanley Steamer, produced from 1896 to 1924. Between 1899 and 1905, Stanley outsold all gasoline-powered cars and...
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    Ross, Saxon, Scripps-Booth, Spaulding, Simplex, Singer, Standard, Stanley Steamer, Stearns-Knight, Stephens, Stewart, Studebaker, Stutz, Sun, Velie,...
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  • prototype bike during a test run. Francis Edgar Stanley (1849–1918) was killed while driving a Stanley Steamer automobile. He drove his car into a woodpile...
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    the British shipping company White Star Line's fleet, which comprised 29 steamers and tenders in 1912. The three ships had their genesis in a discussion...
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    E. Stanley (1849–1918) and Freelan O. Stanley formed the Stanley Motor Carriage Company. They made famous models such as the 1906 Stanley Rocket, 1908...
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  • Evans The Sexton Blake Library (2nd Series) 371 The Mystery of the Tramp Steamer Coutts Brisbane (R. C. Armour) The Sexton Blake Library (2nd Series) 372...
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    the Daytona Beach Road Course, while driving the Stanley Land Speed Record Car. This garnered Stanley Motor Carriage Company the Dewar Trophy. A crew of...
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