Prized Possessions

By Brooks A. Jones
Published on July 1, 1974
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My Stanley Steamer beside the largest shop assembled Babcock and Wilcox boiler. There is a large Babcock & Wilcox plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Stanley was bought in 1935 for $640. It is a seven passenger touring car and runs with a steam press
My Stanley Steamer beside the largest shop assembled Babcock and Wilcox boiler. There is a large Babcock & Wilcox plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Stanley was bought in 1935 for $640. It is a seven passenger touring car and runs with a steam press
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The Tozer Steam Engine - one of Brooks Jones prize possessions. Courtesy of Brooks A. Jones, Hampstead, North Carolina 28488
The Tozer Steam Engine - one of Brooks Jones prize possessions. Courtesy of Brooks A. Jones, Hampstead, North Carolina 28488

Hampstead, North Carolina 28448

Just as little James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, during
early childhood used to play with his mother’s teakettle making
the lid rise and fall by plugging the spout and imagining there was
a giant in the kettle, so Brooks Jones of Hampstead, North
Carolina, used to do likewise. Jones has experienced empathy over

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