{"id":1179,"date":"2008-05-24T23:47:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2008-06-23T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:21:00","slug":"brooks-steam-car-ottawa-science-and-technology-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Brooks steam car &#8211; Ottawa Science and Technology Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamcar.net\/art-brooks.html\"><strong>here about the Brooks steam car<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; made in Canada in the 1920s. The car was underpowered and overpriced, but it was manufactured and more than 100 were built. Only a handful survive. This is a tale of how I got to see one up close and personal.<\/p>\n<p>The article mentioned that there were four in Canadian museums and three in the UK &#8211; there may be eight Brooks steam cars left in the world &#8211; so it&#8217;s a rare item. <\/p>\n<p>Knowing I was to be traveling to Ottawa I emailed the <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencetech.technomuses.ca\/\"><strong>Science and Technology Museum<\/strong><\/a> to find out if the car was on display. I received a lovely email in response with apologies that the car was not on display, but I could make an appointment to view the car at their warehouse. <\/p>\n<p>At the appointed time I met with the Assistant Curator for Transportation and was taken to an amazing warehouse with several steam cars &#8211; more on those later. The 1926 Brooks Tourer was unmistakable with its fabric body &#8211; it looked in amazing condition, as though it was driven in just a week ago. <\/p>\n<p>I was able to take a number of photos that I would not have been able to get if the car were on official display. The first two photos that follow were supplied by the museum and used by permission.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1170\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/1977.0277.001.aa.cs.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo courtesy of the Ottawa Science and Technology Museum &#8211; used by permission<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1171\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/1977.0277.001.ab.cs.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo courtesy of the Ottawa Science and Technology Museum &#8211; used by permission<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1172\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks1.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1173\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks2.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1175\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks14.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1177\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks8.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nFinal drive to rear axle<br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1178\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks13.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBoiler left hand side<br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1180\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks17.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1181\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks15.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1182\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/brooks5.jpg\" alt=\"Brooks steam car\" \/><br \/>\nBrooks steam car &#8211; photo Jerry Everard &copy;2008<\/p>\n<p>More steam cars from this excellent museum will be added over the next few days<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had read here about the Brooks steam car &#8211; made in Canada in the 1920s. The car was underpowered and overpriced, but it was manufactured and more than 100 were built. Only a handful survive. This is a tale of how I got to see one up close and personal. The article mentioned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}