A woodcut of the Dudgeon Steam vehicle from around 1868.

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A woodcut of the Dudgeon Steam  vehicle from around 1868.

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[Gary_Ash]

It appears that the Dudgeon Steam Wagon may still exist in the collections of the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

 

See this page:  http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_844459

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Here is the rest of the story:

http://notorc.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

 

 

 

[JV Puleo]

Seeing as the illustration attributes ownership to George Waterman, a friend and neighbor of my late Aunt & Uncle, I am certain Gary is correct. It certainly didn't go missing in the last 30 years. For those that don't know, George Waterman and his friend Kirk Gibson put together what was probably the most fantastic collection of early racing cars (by early I mean pre-WWI) that has ever existed. I was given a tour of the collection by Mrs. Waterman around 1973. There was a special exhibit of the Waterman racing cars titled "The Vintage Racing Machine" mounted by the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970. The catalog of the exhibit, if you can find one, is very good. Waterman had two famous early Napiers, a 1904 and one of the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup cars.