The Standard Steam Car was an American

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 steam car

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 manufactured by the Standard Engineering Company of St Louis, Missouri from 1920 until 1921. Also known as the Scott-Newcomb, it featured a front condenser

Condenser (heat transfer)

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 that resembled a Rolls-Royce

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-shaped radiator and was similar in appearance to the Roamer. The car had a twin-cylinder horizontal steam engine

Engine

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 and used kerosene

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 for fuel. The boiler pressure was stated as 600psi but it was claimed to be able to raise a full head of steam within a minute. One touring car

Touring car

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is known to have been built; the company may have produced as many as five vehicles before folding.

A 3-page article from 1920 on technical aspects of the Standard Steam Car appears in Floyd Clymer's Historical Motor Scrapbook, Steam Car Edition, published in 1945.