even started one hundred sixty five give you some idea it does take time to research history came up and two years later i had four makes and twenty six years later i had one hundred fifty two makes so everybody says that's it he got to go to press because everybody in the gave me stuff from here and they have the ferguson way i receive material was australia which is kind of hard to believe but when it came in the mail box it was quite a shock people know about it from all over the world and it came back to me and i really appreciate it and we've got some slides to show the book is if you want to get deeper into it might that questions any time i'll see what i primitive but we have to remember it pretty civil war t three thirty comes off early the front also opens up for kids to sit down in in front you can see on the side possibly a light that goes to the rear and that's the room in a boiler gauge you know how much water idea of the height of it very early use of the steering wheel we cannot find anything pertaining to the running gear of this car in any newspaper or magazine or anything we've looked in he thought as a big secret i guess  kept it that way we can imagine that the boiler was in the back of the engines in the middle box in the water thanks probably the front but those of us like mechanics like to know the gearing and put the engine look  noticed the tires come up white in the picture and there was white back then before they added asphalt to the tire rubber but this one has a side entrance you get in the side this is made a german silver but it's in a nice glass case up there everybody knows what a patent model is probably if you're going to patent something you have to send a model over to the patent office so they can examine it and this is what this is probably eighteen to twenty inches long but it's german silver so it's a nice piece steam motorcycle run on ether how many people want to get near it if there's a leak again spoon break in the real wheel air hofmann laura might get on it you know might not stop too good going downhill we had to try everything and they did and i'm glad they did because we try not to different things everybody knows that a bone shake a bicycle is this the front wheel off a bone shaker but he's got a lot of gas engine underneath there in a wagon he's not chasing  bod from waterville his first car in eight hundred ninety eight he made two cars and he thought that he everybody was making them so they try something different so this is a second car everybody else is making them but stanley brothers came up and looked at this car because it doesn't have any chain drive and everybody is running chain and that was a pattern and they sold a local will be able was a chain drive engine system and they was coming back into production and they had to come up with an idea how to drive the car without any chains or they got the idea from him he bolted the engine directly on to the differential on the rear axle and got away from any e they just progressed up through you can see the cylinders underneath right on a dry system there so when the great goes out ice goes outside are going to go down the river and you can see some of the booms back and i got some of that  like it's back to the hosses back then was days so we're progressing up through the engines raised up high vertical engine vertical boiler instead but i can see a least five loads of logs behind him you don't see that the mods get is today his very well not very first but one of the very first internal combustion on mines but he went up the maid seventy three eighty three stand steamers and the you know everybody has probably shovel snow you look at them shovels on the back when you lay em down multiply it out tell me how long  left but it's big six cylinder cast and payers look at the drag link this one's in the main state museum augusta i like to see more restoration on it but a lot of different bodies wheelbase is why they never put that cylinder underneath and jacked it up that way instead of doing it with cables i don't know but we had a try everything this is way to take a picture of you want to talk to you roll it on its side wooden handles on the first speed is one point seven five miles an hour second is three point five third is seven miles an hour in reverse is one point five so you could walk the side this is made in augusta look at the little handle just behind the light on the other side that's how you s might this is the american it's another electric engine underneath motor there you could buy just the motor itself and adapt it to your buggy or whatever you wanted but also look at the ideas of how they took a picture great newspapers down and hung a sheet up behind  so you can see the progress that each one of them made this is the penny engine made mechanic calls the stanley brothers weighs thirty five pounds about six in a quarter hosp are rated  here we are a mechanic falls in the factory up there the building still stands it's been changed a lot but it's still right there lot in the post office is this stone building and they tore down one hundred thirty and built the current one clarence run made probably seven to ten automobiles we have proof of we know what it is because there it says it right on the back he's ready for the day but he still you know they're still in steam but there's some nice lines there compared to what some people believe that we had back then stuff here's another ran in one thousand one parade fourth of july well ahead they made the prototype and they made twelve more and that's the thirteenth one and that's on a master's there's some noise that it might become in the main to the als that transportation museum this is seen engine you remember the penny engine the steam chest was in the center of the screen engine has seemed just on each cylinder on the exposed side of it so they try to lot of different ideas  about you know thirty five thirty eight pounds the stick six hundred pounds of steam and it would turn to if it gets just the collection or just something else stock number one one hundred shares eight hundred ninety nine this is  he was in the newspaper every week and weekly paper he took the kids for rides today and he took the women coffee break a noontime jack got burnt today in the factory he was in iraq he did the advertising the free advertising that we you know like today that you can do if you just talk about something instead of advertising your events come and well he did it back then at the turn of the century  awful high off the ground gets down a little bit he's probably got three and a half inch tires by twenty eight inches on the ice but you can see the union right in the center sit in a vertical chain drive this is supposedly the first all steel automobile well it may have been also the first one in the state of maine but it wasn't in the country of the united states but you know back then everybody is bragging what they had and you wasn't supposed to what somebody else is doing somewhere else you can see that which is seen already everybody was trying to make their own cars in every town all older they had their own ideas and this is the sketch of it anyway snowmobiles now you take my whole lot of us reckon and remember the old water heaters with great big tall tanks something similar to that and well the screw on to it put a ski out front and chad you know up will steam engine go across the snow and ice that looks pretty small and simple that one doesn't look at the size of that steering wheel in front of that  man it just it's something else it's a thrill to do the research research and all that this lady wasn't even born and it's a typical is made out and i didn't know they could tell the sexes back then but she has a dozen of those and her birthday is after that certificate that's all i know on but she sent me a copy this is a steamer in full on the docket making his rounds you can see underneath the front axle in front in their spare time and on the rear of it it looks like is a bumper and i don't know if that's because his castoffs top dead center and you can't start a steam engine top dead center or the back end into something what it is but all i can come up with is  drive you crazy just don't pass this is the blueprint of the bill burroughs cabot stickney built in portland and he only difference between this and the real the seat to my knowledge in the front was never added the all can didn't come with it when i got the cab in the old will turn to rectangle before they went into production the top line in the upper lead is right there is a lid and everything else comes right into place and that's in the main state museum now i went to massachusetts found the front lights come up the sky bro stopped the way home picked up the tail light the match the front lights that's a ball to drive bottom of the water somewhere because they didn't last they burned to the waterline but he tried it and that's the best i have as a drawing proof of it running no i don't here's some of these engines east designed gas and steam this is one nine hundred five auto show stickney was working for the portland grads company at the time he even designed the turntable it sits on and patented it and sold if anybody is asking what the money is that's the whole conscious of the pictures as we can photograph twenty five twenty eight hundred but there's a lot of money and you're getting a fifty cents a day i think that was a gentleman's tag i think that might have been the when it looked like you would go the engine in this walker is a penny engine on a mechanic falls the color change colors they'd basically the same red and white just different shades of it like that and every year is different numbers is in the book there is a small breakdown are th no doors from the fallout they left the fenders off for the photograph to look at the big sheet behind back to snow we'll start let your dog out any right to that ice anybody for motorhome fifth wheel steering that stated like but he had a dog show the travel the country dogs ponies monkeys and high dive and motion pictures that was built in one thousand nine we just found some new material on this been built three different places we're going to update all that history point suspension which is basically a modern day snowmobile but if you saw that coming to town he would go to the dog show would see the vice but a fuel tank and a nice it could release fifty five gallons big gong on it but that really got your attention if you saw that coming i'm sure half up the maine state museum now thank goodness three boys catch find me three high school boys and tell them to build you a cat where would they go looking for us marine engine sulky wheels and i don't know where they got everything else but the front right tire is laced on with twine because those early ties you gotta remember was glued on was shellacked and the tire gets dry and they throw it off the the kids could get it i'm going to keep it on the wheel and getting the points snowmobile this is not a model t engine in a newspaper article refers to him as the his childhood again there now five buildings five stories tall i don't know that's all i've got on it but she's big looks like a v eight that's right now and that we're doing right now is celebrating all these people that did all this i've heard for years it's still in existence but i know it's not his wife's garage with a newspaper refers to her not riding him refusing to ride in and i can see why and probation of automobiles and certain towns can you imagine that bob what outlaw our automobiles for fourteen years yes oh yes because the rich didn't want those but this is the petition for road to get into the town then package vehicle and do the heart drawn tourists than our last but they kept fighting it for fourteen years this is a race picture that i've always thought was around portland area but i can't prove it we had a lot of racing here in maine and west poland was another place that they raced but the cemetery in the background the lay of the nine ten and eleven i believe this one is nine examine the original photograph and get some nice license plates and i found out who they were a project i'm working on trying to get every license plate list that i can find they published and anybody could buy years ago so that i come down look at your picture and tell you what the car is and what it was license and like that all come down to the society and tell them all about their picture they have something like that but of what they did they took one of the post sarah had a set of the post out and put plywood or sent you know something up there so they can see it and that's where they went through and they go back and forth a hundred miles on that beach back and forth through those baffle boards where you want to call them line them up for the whole see that's a pope on the left tribune and but they came from all over the world a ra winner at number three stanley stanley sandoval cup racer right there a replica of that car is over here in limerick it is our road in it a lot i took it up to mt washington last august on the steam tour and hang on because it will go it was funny one up  then spent a week up there touring and the only time we saw police was only left down because they'd never come near the motel they knew what we was doing this is simplex  maine license plate one hundred fourteen the chassis is a thirteen cadillac where it was so we got this car came up here in one hundred fourteen the race but the canada got into the war and they never had a race in fourteen that's real nice i love seein the tower remember when they spread sand like that but i want to know what's towing you get chain falls the left rear of the wing would be a lot of probably five man crew at least here we have a couple of belly dumps who god bless you the if you pull these belly dumps along that would be an eggbeater inside the other grind the dirt out of course the boys are up there trying to shovel it down because they never were properly will they call all the trucks the daytime they made good money can't plow yeah to money i mean some of these newspaper clippings are really something to read trying to keep the dust down was an advertising picture that was found in the archives at augusta but it's quite an idea maudie's made here that was found westbrook y like company this is the portland company anybody care to guess why that type of trailer is built in something and the trailer has a very low body on it any idea why you would have that one hundred fourteen but what would be lifted what would be put in  but something heavy i believe a piano i think that was made for a piano moving because the rigging the pad and lifted into the second story of whatever is in the front they had to create assembly down there a lot more came in in recent weeks in the portland company try to get more gas mileage four dollars in his pocket better than yours right i hope i never see that amount of snow again in my life windshields that was canvas and icing glass is supposed to scoop you know like we have and some pickups and sport vehicles a little piece of plastic to keep the bugs off the windshield well that was the same theory is this is was the scoop the aero via a not restrain it  this is a small section of my license plates it has grown quite a lot since then you can see the upper left corner there the hole showing a red white's five zero nine two  this is a white internal combustion truck from a grocery store the main thing and this one here that's nice it's a white truck and there's a grocery store and it was in maine but the license plate is he twenty four but i've never seen it twelve and i have two pitches a twelve so not their state highway police and civil state police get in the license plates and everything changes forty three there was no sticker misses the windshield sticker that went on the windshield you can see the  who's a passenger catherine for sixty one and the motor numbers there would be nice to know what make a vehicle but we need that registration list to come up with all these things this is another o six on the plate so everybody was equal a c the forty six a i think is five known to exist just a take a vehicle here has numbers on the side lights so it's probably a second hand vehicle coming in from massachusetts to m schools driving schools maintenance schools has automobiles and state that was vernon street battle i can't see enough of the vehicle but i don't think the show was very happy to see two kids beyond it looking back at the wreck automobile patties in portland this is henry stickney on the right hand side and stanley being on number fifteen the one in the left is the columbia and i'm not sure in the center one i'm fascinated with advertising also the most of your aware of probably it this is a model t ford with a body made to look like a camera thank you i hope at least half of you learn something new i have three that together and running right now for caddy thirteen for dinner fifteen do it try i have two more model ts is not together  my basement is a mini museum of miscellaneous automobile yet i have a library in the attic of the house it's clear this room probably full of research material i have two more books under way one of the update this one it has a thirty two more make senate wants a hundred and eighty four makes it was made here in maine and i i still have trouble with that then i mean you've got some relative blood back there and can you believe that all this was happening way back then why didn't we hear about it when we was in school and everybody wanted to teach us maine history why didn't they teach  of all the people in loyce and i think clarence is the one that did the most there everything i mean he was planning a speedway he brought the first car wash to town all these things that he did and it keeps talking about the newspaper but every one of those you find all right here's petty bill one ok now i got to go to two hundred places and check that out well i'm not sure but every lead takes you to more places and you can dr there's no drawings or nothing real getting chances out on the stone wall or any remains or anything oh yeah well it's just an idea that you know the stone wall was a very good dumping spot because you brought the wagon over and used just threw it off and it didn't go down to the ground and bounce back up and  know i have a lot of articles about him driving and taken the train and go on to boston and then take on the electric car out to new picking up a car and driving it home in fact when the last pitches i just got two mind boggling of all the stuff and it's all the different historical societies and different people that collect these things and we all come forward so we all can get it together so the history is correct for everybody to framley as the people who came before us and the ones in the future it's just mind boggling when you get into it in research to the scope it is i do i do it every day hours at a day and i can sto all these stories when i go on a parade and people run off the sidewalk and tell me stories i was down all but one day in a parade i love given rides specially to young people and these two young you know my mother was operated on the kitchen table one of those gas lights just like that but i mean your mother was well they took the light off the car took it in and set it up in the dark to operate it on with the car in the car by lamp and gas you going to run the holes in through and they ran into so all these stories we keep coming up everywhere we go and we learn something is there any better thing in life than learning something and meeting wonderful people that's i think that's the best of it all thank you very much