A Full Head of Steam:

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June 2000
Bill Vossler 
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were designed especially for oil or gas firing, 'whereas,' Bryan Steam says,'most boilers at that time were fired with gas or oil, or were gas or oil conversions from the original coal design.'

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Bryan got out of the steam vehicle business just in time, and in fact it was likely he got out because he saw the handwriting on the wall. The rising popularity of the gasoline engine forced companies to abandon steam autos, trucks, and tractors.

But the Bryan steam tractor is not forgotten. 'I enjoy it because it's unique,' Peter says. 'I like oddball stuff, I guess. It runs under high pressure and the fuel system is really neat. It might not be much to drive around and do anything with - it's more fun to let it sit and run than anything else - but nobody else will run it. It's just unique, and I enjoy that.'

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'He... believed that the superheated system of steam locomotive engines could be condensed into a small, light-weight power plant that would be suitable to operate light weight farm tractors, automobiles, and other motive power-type applications.'

Bryan Steam

'The Bryan light steam tractor ... marks a new step in tractor practice. For the first time in tractor history, this machine uses a high pressure superheated steam boiler, with a steam atomized fuel burner, in a form that makes it entirely possible to use the very lowest grade of fuel.'

Motor Age Magazine, in the 1920s



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