Figure 33. — The 2-cylinder, V-type steam engine of Long's tricycle. 



To effect the restoration it was necessary to replace some 

 missing parts. It is interesting to note that George Eli 

 Whitney, of Bridgeport, Conn., constructed the replace- 

 ment fire-tube boiler and its appurtenances. Whitney is 

 well known as a pioneer steam automobile designer and 

 builder of the mid-1890's, and his work greatly influenced 

 the Stanley brothers of later steam fame. Other important 

 restoration was performed on the tricycle by Russell Davis 

 of Leominster, Mass. 



The 2-cylinder, 90° V-type engine, with a stroke of 1 5 /s 

 inches, was designed and built by Long at Northfield in 

 1879, and the framework and running gear were con- 

 structed by him in the following year or so at Hartford, 

 Conn., in Albert A. Pope's Columbia bicycle plant located 

 in the factory of the Weed Sewing Machine Co. Several 

 different types of boiler were constructed and tried at this 



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