{"product_id":"milwaukee-steam-car-engine-stock-code-12397","title":"Milwaukee steam car engine","description":"An original steam car engine by the Milwaukee Automobile Company.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    One of the lesser known makes, the company was founded by W.H.Starkweather, Herman Pfiel and W.G.Smith in 1899. Of cautious mien, they chose steam over the new-fangled gasoline engine; tried and tested bronze bearings over up to the minute roller bearings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Their two seater \"Runabout\" - similar in style to contemporary offerings from Stanley and Locomobile - utilised a twin cylinder, 5hp engine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Offered at $750, it was advertised as \u003ci\u003e\"Thoroughly efficient, can be safely and easily handled by persons of ordinary intelligence\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Perhaps due to its conservative design - one which might have been seen, even in 1899, as old-fashioned; perhaps for want of sufficient customers of \"ordinary intelligence\", either way the company went bankrupt in1902, three years after its formation, with debts of $42,000.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019891331413,"sku":"12397","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/12397-1.webp?v=1779908066","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/milwaukee-steam-car-engine-stock-code-12397","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}