STEAM MOTOR CYCLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 17

STEAM MOTOR CYCLE.

DOES 60 MILES PER HOUR.

YOUNG SCOT'S INVEXTIOK".

LONDON, January 9.

It was uot surprising that when Mr. •TaniCs Sadler pulled motor cycle US 7367 up alongside the kerb in the City of London the other day, he was quickly Rurrounded by' a large crowd. For US 7367 i<4 something different from the ordinary motor cycle and sidecar. It is home made. It goes by steam. Mr. Sadler, a young engineer with a job on the Glasgow underground railwave, produced US 7367 in his epare time. To make motor cycles that go by steam is his ambition and his hobby. His first, four years ago, was, he admits, a failure. But this one has carried him by easy stages from Glasgow to London and is to take him ba«k.

At firet siglit US 7367 looks all tanks, and tubes/—a motor cycle heavily overloaded with metal. Mr. Sadler moves on it suggests a railway train clattering into a station. The" bicycle has an ordinary frame .and wheek, .'but •midships is a boiler 14in across, which 1 is kept heated by a Buneen burner. In the jjmiler there are 279 vertical etcel 'tubee. • Tr f "'. '''•'■ '

The cycle has a steam-powered electric' lighting set and a steam tanker-pump, and the Water tank is carried under the eeat! of tie sidecar. The engine can develop eighi horeepower, and the machine is capable of a speed of 60 miles an hour. •