Stanley Register Online - 1923

44 cars listed (possible overlap),  15 outside US

1922 1924 Home

Last update: 9/18/22

In owners column:
    Current owner is identified by 2-letter country & state
    Date to left of name is purchase date, to right of name is known ownership date

chassis 23435 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - postcard	current owner 1969, AU, 2022 Western Australian Museum previous owners Percy Markham, 1969	horsepower:  boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	An article on this car appears in The Steam Car, Jul. 2007.  Moving under its own steam, Jan-Feb 2007.
chassis 23448 engine model 740A body touring	image source - unknown	current owner US, WA, 2011 previous owners 1959, Horace Nelson, 1978	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23"x16" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	Nelson bought in CA. - - - 1961 Steam Car Meet, Seattle
chassis 23453 engine model 740D body sedan	image source - Jared Schoenly	current owner 2021, US, CA, 2022 Dan Haynes previous owners 2021, Jared Schoenly 1993, Walter Nuss, 2021 Bernard Cox, 1993 (unknown) Robert D. Stayton, 1946	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:  *	Stayton purchased car in Chicago.  Not operated since 1993.
chassis 23464 engine model 740B body		current owner 2004, unknown previous owners US	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	Sold at auction in Michigan in 2004.  Needed total restoration.
chassis 23467 engine model 740 body 5-pass	image source - personal collection	current owner unknown previous owners Craig Standbridge, 2021 C. E. Simmons, 1969	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:  *	- -- 2008 Steam Car Tour, Bennington, VT
chassis 23470 engine model 740G body sedan	image source - Coburn Benson	current owner 2009, US, VA Don Clark previous owners 8/22/08, Donald Hoke Coburn Benson, 2007	horsepower:  20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:  *	Raulang body.  Very good original condition, Raulang body.  Front wheel brakes added.
chassis 23478 engine model 740B body 7-pass	image source - Steam Car Club of Great Britain	current owner AU, 2015 previous owners	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	Originally delivered to South Africa.  Houk wire wheels, 18" boiler, Baker burner, propane pilot.
chassis 23479 engine model 740 body	image source - Light Steam Power, Sep-Oct 60	current owner AU, 2014 previous owners Milton Shaw Clive Hercus	horsepower: 20 boiler:   gear ratio:   tires:   wheelbase:  weight:	In pieces as of 2014.
chassis 23489 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - owner	current owner US, IL, 2014 previous owners Donald Keane, 2007 Guy Moses, 1961 John Wells, 1957	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  33 x 5 ss wheelbase: 130 weight:	In good running condition, good paint, has California top which needs recovered. New boiler Nov. 1992.
chassis 23495 engine model 740E body roadster	image source - postcard	current owner 2005, US, CA previous owners Lorain County Joint Vocational    School, 2003 9/29/89, Herbert Hampson Norman Reisinger, 1974 J. L. Marshall, 1965 T. C. Marshall, 1954 J. B. Van Sciver, II, 1949	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  tires:  33 x 5 ss wheelbase:  130 weight:	Van Sciver owned as early as 1942, drove during gas rationing.  Hampson donated to LCJVS, students nearly completed restoration.  Sold on eBay.  Subject of an article in The Stanley Museum Quarterly, Spring 2003.
chassis 23496 engine model 740G body	image source - current owner	current owner 2021, FR Walter Phillippe previous owners Preston Services, GB, 2015 David Fullington, 2003 Lawrence Fullington, 1997 Jim Redman, 1986 1958, Joseph Ellison, 1966 Dyer, MI, 1957	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:  4350	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Homebuilt Runabout.  Sedan body missing.  Harry Peterson water tube boiler & triple jet oil burner. other notes: Ellison purchased chassis, running gear, & condenser, built body.  "Prinz Olaf Special" - see The Steam Automobile, 1979 v21 #4. - - - 1963 SACA Meet, Worthington, OH 1966 SACA Meet, Worthington, OH
chassis 23509 engine 4029 model 740 body touring	image source - personal collection	current owner US, NH, 2022 Richard Dickey previous owners Frank Cooke Clyde Walton, 1965 Norbert Behrendt, 1954	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight: *
chassis 23517 engine model 740D body sedan	image source - personal collection	current owner US, NH, 2022 Richard Dickey previous owners Carl Amsley 1975, Arthur A Lambert 1973, William Chase, 1975 Carl Amsley Clinton Atkinson Paul Bourdon Clinton Atkinson, 1950	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  36 x 5 wheelbase: 130 weight: 4000 *	- - - 2007 Steam Car Tour, Delaware
chassis 23539 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - personal collection	current owner 1989, US, PA, 2016 American Treasure Tour previous owners John Tyson, 1989	horsepower:  boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight: *	Tyson owned as early as 1955. - - - 1955 Steam Car Meet, Lakeville, CT 1956 Steam Car Meet, Schwenksville, PA
chassis 23543 engine 735-2144 model 740 body 5-pass	image source - George Hounslow	current owner GB, 2018 Peter Hounslow previous owners 2007, Michael Retman 2000, James Rochester Lawrence Woolf, GB, 2000 5/88, Craig Craddock, 1991 6/87, George Coffin William Doughty, 1987	horsepower: 20 boiler:  25" x 19" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  600 x 20 ss wheelbase: 130 weight:	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Doughty owned the car about 20 yrs.  He found it in a chicken coop.  #160 stamped below front and rear seat on body wood.  Appears to be a very original car. other notes: 10/15/1983 Severely damaged by runaway horse.  When advertised in 1987: body ruined by horses, serial #23545.  Now restored.  New boiler 2012. GB reg. SV 8689
chassis 23548 engine 1877 model 740 body 7-pass	image source - museum	current owner 2002, AU, 2022 Nat'l Museum of Australia previous owners 1993, Phillip Hutchinson, AU Burton Gould	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 16" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:130 weight:  4000	Gould owned as early as 1954, probably through about 1990.
chassis 23555 engine 2743 model 740 body sedan	image source - museum	current owner 1985, CA, 2013 Reynolds Museum previous owners 1977, Stan Reynolds, CA B. J. Pollard	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  tires:  32 x 4.5 ss wheelbase: 130 weight: 4600	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Restored to operating 1990-91.  History before Pollard unknown. other notes: Raulang body.  Operational in 2013 - video here.
chassis 23565 engine 740-4065 model 740A body 5-pass	image source - Picasa, Ian Hayhurst	current owner US, AR, 2008 previous owners Bruce Waterworth, US, 2001 William B. Burwell, CA 1986, John Smith, CA William E. Heatlie, CA, 1982 1950, Gordon Smith, CA, 1978 Joe Gest Dickinson, CA	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  33 x 5 ss wheelbase:  130 weight:  4300	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Excellent.  Sold new in Toronto.  Purchased from original owner in 1950. [also listed as 23505] other notes: Joe Gest bought from family of original owner in Ontario, gave to Smith. On display in Niagara museum 1951-1975. - - - 2000 Vermont tour
chassis 23569 engine 740-4083 model 740B body 7-pass		current owner unknown previous owners 10/15/88, William Downey,1991 Wallace Rudd, 1978 1953, Hunt Smith	horsepower: 20 boiler:  25" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  33 x 5 ss wheelbase: 130 weight:	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Excellent. other notes:
chassis 23571 engine 740-385 model 740B body touring	image source - current owner	current owner 2007, US, AR, 2022 previous owners Anton Schuck, 1957	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Converted to burn coal during WWII.  Recoversion to liquid fuel planned as of 2007.
chassis 23572 engine model 740B body 7-pass		current owner unknown previous owners Roy T. Shelso, 1978 Joe Joseph, 1953	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase: 130 weight:	Sprague Register 1991 notes: (* not verified by owner) Serial number appears to be 23572 but may be 23372. other notes: Advertised in 1953 with atomizing burner, Cruban boiler, 4-wheel hydraulic brakes, front disks, 12v electrics. 23372 would be well outside of known serial #s and outside the Hardman estimate.
chassis 23587 engine model 740 body	image source - Steam Car Club of Great Britain	current owner 1968, GB, 2011 previous owners (France)	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  500 x 21 wheelbase:  130 weight:	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Complete original car less body.  Reputed to be owned by Bugatti, converted to coal fired burner during WWII. other notes: Subject of an article in Light Steam Power, Jan 1978, and The Stanley Museum Quarterly, Sep 1998. Picture is listed as 1924 on SCCGB page. GB reg. SSC 740
chassis 23588 engine model 740B body 7-pass	image source - Hemmings	current owner 2009, US, OH, 2022 previous owners Bill Lewton 1967, Chester R. Lewis 1962, Clyde Walton, 1967 J. W. Palmer, 1954	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: 131 weight: *
chassis 23593 engine 735-2804 model 740 body 5-pass	image source - SACA Bulletin, May-Jun 2006	current owner 9/2010, UK SW previous owners 2006, Rob Williams 1955,  Carlton G. Nelson, 2006 1932, George Hildreth 1928, Russell Goodall 1923, Mr. Kimball	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 16" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  33 x 5 ss wheelbase:  130 weight: 2800	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Purchased originally by mayor [Kimball] of Rochester, NH.  Weathered away from 1932 to 1955. other notes: Originally a 5-passenger sedan.  Carries 5 passenger touring body from #22274.  An article on this car's 21-year restoration appears in The Bulb Horn, Apr-Jun 1993, and in The Steam Automobile Bulletin, Jan-Feb 2006. - - - 1979 Steam Car Meet, Lakeville
chassis 23599 engine model 740 body 7-pass		current owner GB unknown previous owners Craig Standbridge, 1999 Carl Amsley	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  32 x 4.5 wheelbase: 130 weight: 4200	1999 Centennial Program shows this serial # and date of 1924.
chassis 23600 engine model 740A body 5-pass		current owner 2018, US, ME previous owners D. H. Randall, Jr., 2018	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 14" gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:	Randall owned as early as 1976.
chassis 23611 engine model 740 body	image source - Julian Robinson	current owner 1963, AU, 2019 previous owners Sydney Clement, 1963 R. M. McKenzie, 1957	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Unusual 2-door sedan body.  Chassis plate has no model number -  chassis only imported to Australia when new.
chassis 23612 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - unknown	current owner 2005, GB, 2010 previous owners Jeff Theobald, GB, 2005 P. Lynch, AU	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:
chassis 23614 engine model 740 body roadster	image source - Bill Barnes	current owner 1994, NL, 2013 previous owners 1985, Bill Barnes 1/8/77, Raymond E. Thompson, 1985 11/30/59, Ralph VanDine, '77 Harvey Deering, 1959 G. F. Grew, NH, 1924	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:  3500	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Flash boiler.  Body built by VanDine. other notes: Derr boiler and 12v burner when owned by VanDine.  Video of this car in operation is here.
chassis 23622 engine 4147 model 740 body limousine	image source - Pinterest	current owner US, CA, 2018 previous owners 1962, Ed Zelinsky, 1983 Roland Giroux, 1962	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Zelinsky owned as early as 1962, current owner by 1985. 1957 club Register shows year 1924, serial # 33622 - this car's plate stamping is easy to misread.  bodied by Springfield. More photos here.
chassis 23627 engine model body limousine	image source - Howard Johnson	current owner US, IL, 2022 unknown previous owners Martin Stephonic Robert W. Kullberg, 1980 1968, Bruno Galliano, 1970 Frank B. Springer, Jr., 1968 T. C. Marshall, 1961	horsepower:  20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:  5200	Springfield body.  Known to be a very fast car.
chassis 23635 engine model 740 body Brewster	image source - unknown	current owner 2021, DE unknown previous owners 1973, Ralph P. Wilcox, 2021 1969, Walter Nuss Donald O. Beckner, 1969	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:  4800 *	This body is identical in every detail to one exhibited by Brewster (on a Brewster chassis) in the Astor Hotel show in NY in 1918.  Open beam ceiling, leather top, roof ventilator, quartered oak interior, leather paneling, spindled-back front seat, woven cane door panels.  Advertised as belonging to wealthy eccentric Hettie Green; she passed away in 1916.  Plate shows no model designation - clearly sold as chassis and had this body installed.  Transitions to Stanley hood and chassis are of a character that makes it unlikely that this body installation was actually done by Brewster. Beckner owned since at least the 1950s. Engine # appeared in Sprague as 22164 - believed to be a different car.
chassis 23640 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - Steam Power Qtrly, '71 5#4	current owner US, CA, 2014 previous owners 1971,Ray Brasel 1968, Bert Trubody, 1971 C. M. Hopkins, 1968	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: 131 weight:
chassis 23642 engine 740-4067 model 740 body 7-pass	image source - unknown	current owner US, IL, 2009 previous owners H Jeff Kenney Chauncey Kenney	horsepower: 20 boiler:  23" x 18" gear ratio: 40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	New boiler Apr 2007. - - - 2006 Ormond Beach tour
chassis 23644 engine model 740 body 7-pass	image source - steamcar.net	current owner 2022, NL previous owners 2012, unknown, 2021 5/2004, Ian Vinton, GB, 2012 1989, Arthur LeCompte, 5/2004 Walter Cook Al Cook Don Becknor	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Subject of an article in The Steam Car, Jul. 2004.  Disassembled and not operational in Nov. 2021.
chassis 23650 engine 740-4136 model 740 body 5-pass	image source - personal collection	current owner 2016, US, MI, 2022 Joe Fedullo previous owners John Packard, 2016 7/1/90, Hoyt Winslett, Jr. C. S. Amsley Roy Conn F. D. Wade Clifford A. McDougal, 1976	horsepower:  20 boiler:  23" x 14" gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  33 x 5 cl wheelbase: 130 weight:  3750 *	Sprague Register 1991 notes: Early AACA 1st prize winner.  Some modification from orig. specs., but all Stanley hardware. other notes: Restored in 1952. - - - 2008 Steam Car Tour, Bennington, VT 2010 Steam Car Tour, Camden, ME
chassis 23765 engine model 740 body		current owner unknown previous owners Eugene V. Burrows, 1982	horsepower:  20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	7-passenger touring limousine, removeable top (?).  Front axle changed to Franklin, all modern wheels & tires. Serial # stated as 3675, assumed to be 23675.
chassis engine model 740B body 7-Pass		current owner AU previous owners	horsepower: 20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:	Sprague Register 1991 notes: (* not verified by owner) other notes:
chassis engine model body touring	image source - The Steam Automobile, '71 13#3	current owner unknown previous owners 1951, Ted Pritchard, AU	horsepower: boiler:  gear ratio:  40-60 tires:  wheelbase:  130 weight:	Centrelock wire wheels.  Experimental boiler and control system described in Light Steam Power, May-Jun 1955.
chassis engine model 740B body 7-pass	image source - pBase, Ed Kowalski	current owner US, MO, 2022 National Mus. of Transp. previous owners William Abbott	horsepower:  20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	Front fenders & headlights are not Stanley.
chassis engine model 740B body 7-pass	image source - Hemmings Motor News, Sep. 76	current owner unknown previous owners Kingdon K. Miller	horsepower:  20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	Houk wire wheels.  Miller was an antique car dealer.
chassis engine model 740 body roadster	image source - website	current owner US, NE, 2003 Kermit Wilke previous owners	horsepower: boiler: gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Under restoration in 1998, boattail roadster body acquired for 740 chassis. - - - 2003 Steam Car Tour, Estes Park
chassis engine model 735 body touring		current owner CA, NS, 2009 previous owners	horsepower: boiler: gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase: weight:	Current ownership since at least 1949.  Disassembled as of 2009.
chassis 23999 engine 740-8996 model 740 body	image source - Don Hoke	current owner 2012, US, VT previous owners 2008, Don Hoke, 2012 Adam Auditori, AU (Tasmania) Philip Hutchinson	horsepower:  20 boiler:  gear ratio:  tires:  wheelbase:  weight:	A collection of parts that Hutchinson gathered while building another car. Body parts from a 1921 735.  Front axle and wire wheels bought as non-Stanley.  Engine and rear axle found separately. Frame cut, found in a museum.  Serial # plate missing.  Could be 1922, as quite a few Stanleys were imported into Australia that year.

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