Höyryvaunu – brittiläisen yhteiskunnan pelastus

koneellisen maantieliikenteen haaste rautateille Britanniassa 1830-luvulla

Authors

• Tuomas Värjö

Abstract

The challenge of freerunning steam road vehicles to the railways in Britain in the 1830s

When the first railway was taken into use between Manchester and Liverpool in August 1830, steam road vehicles had long been in traffic in the streets of London. At the beginning of the 1830s, The National Institution of Locomotion for Steam Transport and Husbandry was founded for the promotion of steam carriages, with the aim to challenge the railway by starting a regular traffic communication in central England.
Despite all the publicity and the work of the steam carriage engineers and theorists, free-running steam road vehicles did not become common in the 1830s. By 1840, development of steam carriages was generally abandoned. There were several reasons for this, the most important of which was that reliable technical components needed for constructing steam carriages were simply not invented yet.