Reading Steamer
The Reading and Meteor were American steam cars developed by Irvin D. Lengel in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Reading Steamer
- Name
- Steam Vehicle Company of America Meteor Engineering Company
- Founded
- 1901.
- Headquarters
- Reading.
- Activity
- automotive industry.
- Products
- steam car.
- Dissolved
- 1903.
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The Reading and Meteor were American steam cars developed by Irvin D. Lengel in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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• Name — Steam Vehicle Company of America Meteor Engineering Company • Fate — Closed • Founder — Irvin D. Lengel • Hq Location — Reading, Pennsylvania • Hq Location Country — United States • Industry — Automotive • Products — Steam car
Reading Steam Carriage
Reading Steam Carriage
Built by the Steam Vehicle Company of America, their advertisement promised their Model B "runs indefinitely without attention." The steamer featured a four-cylinder steam engine when most steamers used two-cylinders. It had a bench seat over the engine compartment with tiller type steering. Drive was by chain to the rear wheels. The Model B sold for $850,. A year into the production of the Reading, creditors liquidated the company.
Meteor Steam Car
Meteor Steam Car
Irvin D. Lengel was also a principal of Meteor Engineering Company who took over the assets of the Steam Vehicle Company of America in 1902. Meteor built a tonneau version of the steam car. Meteor also built a prototype gasoline automobile, but by the fall of 1903, Meteor Engineering Company was bankrupt.
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Institutional cataloguing adds that the treatment of diphtheria in children by steam medicated with sulphurous acid / by T. Wyld Pairman; [read by Dr. Model of the steam baths of the Roman emperor Diocletian, 295 A.D. men are shown relaxing and receiving massages. Institutional cataloguing adds that smith's shop, Davy & United Engineering Co. Park Iron Works, Sheffield: men are shown operating hydraulic presses, steam and pneumatic power hammers and gas fired furnaces. The Sumida river, with a broadneck road leading to Azuma bridge, Asakusa, northeast Tokyo; in the background is a miniature version of Mount Fuji.
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