McKay - Stanley Mfg. Co. 1900 - 1902 Stanley Mfg. Co. Lawrence, MA The McKay steam car was, in fact, a Stanley carefully redesigned so as not to infringe any of the patents which the Stanley twins had granted to Locomobile and Mobile. Locomobile nevertheless threatened to sue the Stanley company so they completely redesigned the car, replacing the vertical engine and chain drive by a horizontal engine and direct drive ton the rear axel. This became the 1902 model of the new Stanley Motor Carriage Company.[1] [1] Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobile, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 128. © 2007 Donald & Carolyn Hoke Collection All Rights Reserved. |