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Whitney Machine Company.

R. S. Whitney made only three cars during his six-year manufacturing period. The first two were conventional 2-cylinder steamers, a two passenger runabout and a four-passenger surrey, but the last model.in 1905, showed some originality in having a front-mounted boiler and integral construction of body and chassis.[1]

Whitney Machine Company Steam Car, R. S. Whitney, 1903 Floyd Clymer, p. 50

R. S. WHitney of Brunswick, ME built this steam car in 1903. Between 1899 and 1905, he built three steam cars that he sold locally.[2]

[1]Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobile, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 206.
[2]Kimes and Clark have additional information on Whitney and his three steam cars. See: Kimes, Beverly Rae and Clark, Henry Austin Jr., Standard Catalogue of American Cars, 1805 - 1942, 3rd Edition, (Iola, WI, Krause Publications, 1996), p. 1542.

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