Hollycombe is slow to get started in the mornings as most of the collection is steam-powered and requires a significant amount of preparation and warm-up time.
Bowman posed the question "Has anyone revisited steam power to run farm equipment, industrial applications such as wood mills or other types of equipment?" Members of the Steam Automobile Club of America (SACA) have addressed that issue indirectly while designing modern steam-powered automobiles.
ANTIQUES Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury made his first visit as patron to the last UK steam-powered tug tender, Daniel Adamson, in Liverpool yesterday.
The car broke the land speed record for a steam-powered vehicle with an average speed of 139.843mph over two consecutive runs over a measured mile last year at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
An attempt at test-launching a British-built steamcar had tobe aborted yesterday before its bid to set a newworld land speed record for steam-powered vehicles.