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Monday, January 25, 2016

Steam tourist bus on the way to the Paris Expo


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This is a Bollee steam bus with Muhlbacher body work, built in 1885.

 It could carry 16 people at a speed of 10 mph. It was built on the pattern of a "diligence" of the 1850s - that is, a substantially built coach with four or more horses that was the French version of a stagecoach. It weighed 15432.36 pounds. It survives today in the National Museum of the Car and Tourism in Compiègne in northern France.



 Thanks Steve!

http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-pratique/modelisme-modeles-reduits/sujet9809-8575.htm
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/r%C3%A9volution_industrielle/61047

Update Feb 17th


1885 Amedee Bollee Diligence du Marquis de Broc, an early 18-passenger, steam-powered bus. It stands as high as a two-story building, is driven from the above like a ferry boat, while the boiler and its smokestack is located amidships.
http://www.automobilemag.com/features/lists/10-coolest-things-at-paris-retromobile/

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