Grenville Steam Carriage
The Grenville steam carriage was developed in 1875 by Robert Neville-Grenville, assisted by George Jackson Churchward. It was built around a boiler from a Merryweather & Sons fire engine, and could carry seven people including the driver, steersman and stoker. The carriage is preserved at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, and is thought to be the oldest self-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle still in working order. Design Neville-Grenville, the eldest son of Ralph Neville-Grenville, of Butleigh Court, Butleigh, Glastonbury, is said to have received the first engineering degree from Cambridge University. He gathered several steam tractors, ploughs and other engines to work on the family estate. He and Churchward met as apprentices at the South Devon Railway Company, South Devon Railway's works at Newton Abbot. From 1874, in a collaboration that lasted fifteen years, they designed and built a steam-powered, passenger carrying road vehicle. Built on a steel girder, it ...
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Beaulieu National Motor Museum 18-09-2012 (8516778752)
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