SACA NW Chapter Officers:

President Myles Twete of 4936 SE Flavel Drive Portland, Oregon 97206 503-267-6465 (home 503-777-2110) email: mylest@teleport.com Secretary/Treasurer/Editor: Pat Farrell, 6647 Bridgewater Lane, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 360-856-1294 e-mail <rp.farrell@verizon.net>

The NW Chapter of SACA newsletter is sent out the first week of each season of the year. Cost of our hardcopy newsletter is $5 a year. Cyberspace delivery is free to NW region SACA members.

Our mission is to perpetuate the use of the steam automobile and to share information pertaining to them.

Events:

July 7, 8, 9 & 10, 2005 HCCA Kiss Tour for 1 and 2 cylinder cars. Located at Waterville, Washington. For more information, Call Howard at 206-919-1949

July 8-10^th, 2005 SACA NW Steam Clinic and Mini tour. Located at Pat & Merrily Farrell's Unique Museum, Sedro Woolley, WA. Contact Pat at 360-856-1294 for more information. Lodging is close by at the Three River's Inn. Call 360-855-2626 for room reservations.

August 12 - 14, 2005 Northwest Steam Society Annual Steam Meet, Port Angeles, WA. Bill Larson is organizing the Meet, and he wants to invite you to bring your steam cars for display in Port Angeles this year.  They have lots of room on the City Pier, with plenty of security, and lots of folks who want to see all the gear you can show.  Check out the Northwest Steam Society website and you'll get some hint of what they're going to have.  Let him know when you can.  Or, if you have any questions. Bill Larson email address: SLVitalSpark@aol.com

September 10, 2005, Anacortes, WA Antique Machinery Show, located next to the Sternwheeler Steamboat W.T. Preston. In 2004, due to rain, we had 57 exhibitors out of an expected 80 show up so we still deemed the show a success. 2005 will be featuring metal working in all its forms. That means not only blacksmithing; we will have power hammers, punch press, drop hammer, lathe, drill press and maybe a shaper. We are looking for a good metal bender to put on exhibition.

Call "Frank" Orr at 360-293-3491, or email him at [steam.boat@verizon.net]

September 11-15, 2005 San Juan Islands HCCA Tour, pre 16 cars only. Contact Fred and Penny Cruger, E-mail Address abbott1912@aol.com

September 15-17, 2005, SACA Chicagoland Chapter annual meeting and Time trials. Located at the Berrien County youth Fair Grounds, 9122 Old U.S. 31, Berrien Springs, Michigan. Time trials on the 17^th.

January 22-28, 2006 Centennial of the 127.659 mph Stanley land Speed record of January 26, 1906 Ormond Beach, Florida. Steam car tour and time trials. Contact the Stanley Museum at 207-265-2729 for more information.

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SACA NW Chapter 2005 Steam Clinic/Mini Tour/Business Meeting July 7, 8, 9, 2005 Pat and Merrily's Unique Museum, 6647 Bridgewater Lane, Sedro Woolley, WA Telephone 360-856-1294

Requirements: Being a SACANW member and having an interest in getting your steam car running better. Event is hosted by Pat and Merrily Farrell. There isn't a registration fee.

Itinerary:

Friday, July 8, 2005

9:00AM Museum is open for viewing.

10:00AM Steam up and test runs.

12:00 noon Lunch on your own

7:00PM No host dinner at the Three River's Inn, Hwy 20, Sedro-Woolley

Saturday, July 9, 2005

9:00AM Steam up and test runs

10:00AM 24 mile mini tour leaves to see the country side.

2:00PM Salmon Bar-B-Q at the museum. Pot luck

3:00PM SACANW business meeting. Election of officers, financial report.

4:00PM Steam touring on your own.

6:00PM Steam Car videos and visiting in the Museum.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

9:00AM Steam up and test runs.

10:00AM Local touring on your own.

12:00 noon Farewell

Vehicle requirements: For test driving on 1 mile asphalt loop driveway, anything goes. For driving in mini tour on county roads, vehicle license and insurance are required.

Driving Directions: From Interstate 5, take exit 232 east on the Cook Road to Sedro-Woolley. At the traffic light with Hiway 20 in Sedro-Woolley, turn left. At the next traffic light with Hwy 9, turn left (north). Drive 2.2 miles to the Mosier Road, turn left (west). Continue west straight through the stop sign at the Grip Road. ¼ mile after the Grip Road stop sign, Farrell's driveway is on the right (north side). Driveway is marked with 12 ft high Caterpillar yellow posts on each side or the driveway, and leaning against the first post is a large logging block. Parking is at the end of the driveway

Lodging: Located three miles from the Farrell Museum, Three Rivers Inn, address is: 210 Ball Street Call 360-855-2626 for room reservations. They are located on the right (south) side of highway 20, just before the traffic light with hiway 9. Make your reservations early as no rooms have been reserved for our event. For those with motor homes, primitive campsites are available at Pat and Merrily Farrells'.

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Alan Kelso Asks: There must have been a good dealer in your area. Do you have any idea who or where it was? What was there primary function in Washington? Hotels, freight?

Editor:   We must have had been at least 5 Stanley dealers over the course of time for the State of Washington.  To name a few, there was the Spokane Stanley dealer that handled eastern Washington.  There was the Portland, Oregon dealer that covered the Southern part of Washington. There was the dealer in Puyallup by the name of E. & G. Motor Co.  The one who really sold the most Stanleys was "The Stanley Automobile Agency" located at 405 East Pine Street in Seattle.  His rubber stamp is located on most of the Stanley literature that is found here about nowadays.

    The State of Washington is divided by the Cascade Mountains and from these mountains, rivers flow to the sea. The Cascade Mountains and their rivers prevented the rail roads and road builders from cheaply building roads from town to town.   In the early days of transportation, even railroads didn't provide transportation to the towns like Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Bremerton, etc. because toes of the Olympic Mountains were also at the waters edge. No roads followed these shorelines yet.    All of the town to town transportation was by the Mosquito fleet of steam boats that covered the Puget Sound waters daily.   They would ferry passengers from town to town.  When the passengers arrived at the docks, the Stanley steamer mountain wagons would meet them and like a bus, take them to which ever nearby communities they wanted to go to.  The Stanley Mt. Wagons were owned by transportation companies that often had from one to as many as six mountain wagons in service at one time.  In one photo, the Lake Crescent transportation company also had a model 70 in service amongst their Mountain wagons to deliver their paying passengers.

   In the new "The Stanley Steamer, America's Legendary Steam Car" book put out by the Stanley Museum, check out my Mountain wagon photos that I had loaned them to use.  Yes, the state of Washington was well covered by the Stanley Mt. Wagon.  The Mountain Wagon parts are still littering the country side and the parts still keep on turning up.  In comparing Washington to the rest of the United States, in ratio, we had a higher ratio of Mt. Wagons to Stanley passenger cars on the road.

    Where did they all go to?   Washington being water oriented, we had many steam boats that had deck winches.  The bow deck winches were usually ran by the Stanley steamer engines.  In Tacoma, the Dunlap Towing and Barge Company had a standing offer for years of something like $200 for any Stanley dead or alive delivered to their docks.  That company as well as all the other tug boat companies would buy the Stanleys, save the engines to power their deck winches and then junk the rest for scrap metal.  Almost all of our Stanley engines ended up doing salt water duty.  When the steam tugs changed to diesel engines, then the Stanley engines were then ran on air.  I have had many old timers tell me that the warehouses of the tug boat companies had Stanley engines stacked up like cord wood.  Still today, in 2005, many vintage tug boats still use Stanley steam engines to run their deck winches.

    Our 30 hp engine in our Stanley model 85 came from a tug boat that had used the engine on its deck winch in use between Seattle, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska.

Stanley Model numbers: Years ago, Stanley model numbers of cars didn't change annually like modern cars do now. When Stanley car builders built a new model, the model number stayed with that car for what ever length of time that they produced that model. Non condensing cars had different model numbers for the different body types, whether it was a roadster body or a touring body, you had different model numbers. In the condensing cars, the letter following the 735 model number indicated which body type was used. In example, a 735 "A" would be a 4 passenger touring body. "B" was for a 7 passenger touring body, "C" was for a coupe. "D" was a sedan; "E" was a roadster. "F" was a four door 4 passenger (Brougham). . The model number may have been for a one off body, or maybe the model number lasted for years like the Stanley 735 which was built starting in 1918 through the spring of 1922. The model 740 replaced the 735 model. The first number of the model number designated the engine type. As in a model 735, the engine type would be a type 7 engine (a 20 hp Stanley engine). When you ordered parts for your Stanley, you needed to give them your model number so that you would get the correct parts you needed for your Stanley.

Eli Wrote: I and another well known car collector purchased a steam car at the Amelia Island Auction. We recently received delivery of the car and are extremely excited to get working on it.

We purchased the 1914 20 hp Stanley roadster (want to be) with the view of having some fun playing with a steam car - something neither of us has done before. I own a pub/brewery/restaurant called "Steamworks" (we use live steam from Vancouver's famous central steam line to fire our brewery). I hope to use the car extensively in connection with my business, as I do with the other classic cars that I own. While having a real Stanley Steamer would be nice, at our purchase price, it give us lots of room to play, and being a "company car" utility in this case is more important than paperwork.

A we progress with sorting the no-name steam car, I'll be happy to update any interested parties with news of what we find. If anyone has anymore information on the above noted car, I'd be most indebted if you could let us know. I expect we'll also be seeking advice from experienced steam car owners as mechanical and restoration decisions need to be made.

Thanks in advance,

Eli Gershkovitch Vancouver, BC

Yakima HCCA tour On the week end of June 4, '05, twenty pre '16 cars met at Keene Brewer's apple farm in Yakima, Washington for a local winery tour of the area. Bob Ullrich rode with Pat Farrell for the day in their 1914 Stanley roadster. The tour moved along at about 35 mph which was slow enough for the roadster to have it's burner off over half the time. When it would come on, it would let out its mournful howl. The Stanley got about 1 gallon of water to the mile during the tour. On one stretch we traveled 30 miles on about 30 gallons. Reflecting back on our tour, if we had only turned our main fuel down to where the fire just barely was on most of the time, then we would have gotten better water mileage. Why? Superheated steam would have always been present. As it was, with the burner off most of the time, saturated steam was what we were mostly using. The super heater wasn't being heated but only when the burner would come on. You get better water mileage using super heated steam rather than using saturated steam.

Fuel line plumbing by Pat Farrell. After getting our '16 Mt. Wagon together, the first problem encountered was not being able to pump main fuel because of a vapor lock. After trying to bleed the lines of air and checking for air leaks, it was eventually found that I had improperly installed the main fuel line. I had left a few rises and dips in the routing of the main fuel line as the line traveled up from the fuel tank, through the Mt. Wagon's long frame and back down to both the power fuel pump, and the hand fuel pump. In the rises air was trapped that could not be flushed out by fuel action. Carefully selecting the correct fittings and routing the fuel line on a gradual ascent from the tank to the hand fuel pump (where I also had a bleeder valve), made it possible for trouble free pumping of the fuel. 
 
 
 Bakersfield Swap Meet April 2005:   Bakersfield was excellent. A high of 84 degrees was attained with no rain for the whole meet.
 Friday evening found most all of the steam car owners having dinner together at the local steak house. Pete Ingwersen of New Mexico had his father's Locomobile project there. He had about 3 Loco engines there too. I don't think that he ever sold it. He was asking $10,000 for the project. It had one new body and one original body in the package. It had everything needed and then some.
 A pair of three tier flared front E&J cowl lamps in good condition sold on the second day for $300 for the pair and they were an excellent buy. Rushmore head lights of all sizes were there for the buyers. I bought the biggest Rushmore lamp made for $500. It had fluted lenses and it was in great condition. No dents and only in need of polish.
 Robin of model 71 fame, and Loren Burch, a steam car upholsterer, shared a stall behind me, and they had some Stanley things for sale too. Allen Blazick showed up on Saturday, and he still found good buys. By that time, what wasn't sold on Friday was now half price. Stanley pressure gauges could be found from $100 to $300. Steam literature was plentiful around us but I already had copies of everything I found.
 We sold the heck out of everything that we took. We came home with an empty rig except for the goodies that we had bought at the meet.
  
 Should have you been there? If you went to Chickasha, then you should have been at Bakersfield.  Bakersfield was bigger and better than ever. Hershey is still the king of swap meets.

Progress of the Model 826. The last surviving Stanley model 826 Mt. Wagon, one of only 6 built, is finally running again. It has several months of final detailing left and some accessories to be added to make it complete. It was built in 1916 for Mr. Fred Lewis of New York. Mr. Fred Lewis was a wealthy fruit orchard owner with orchards in both Florida and California. Mr. Lewis also owned a large ranch in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Two boilers were installed in the model 826 for added performance and it was to be raced at Daytona Beach, Florida. No racing records have been found on this fascinating vehicle as of yet. The model 26 soon found it way to Mr. Lewis's orchards near Los Angeles, California.

Farrell’s Model 826

It was there that one of the boilers was removed and a truck type body was installed. The steamer was then used for transporting supplies and workers to the orchards. By 1920 the steamer was traded in to a Los Angeles car dealer and that is when and where its former owner, Blondie Moore, had purchased it. With me not having any racing photos on the model 826 and it having only a home made body, I decided to install an replicated 12 passenger noncondensing Mt. Wagon body on it, just like that could have been installed by the Stanley factory. Here is a current photo of it now.

On the road June 19th, 2005

The 1916 Stanley as bought in 1998 from Dick and Mary Moore.

Blondie Moore (Dick's dad) built the surrey type body in 1960 for the Mt. Wagon.

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