Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring
with Michael Frostick

New anti-pollution laws in the United States aimed against the petrol engine have added fresh fire to the boilers of the steam car. Steam cars went off the road about forty years ago and enthusiasts anxious to bring them back have had little or no support. Now some of the big motor manufacturers are interested in steam cars again because it may be cheaper to make a steam car than attempt to clean up the exhaust of the internal combustion engine. Has the steam car a new future?
Or will it go down into history for good?
A Wheelbase enquiry from Bressingham Hall in Norfolk: with Donald Healey, who is planning to manufacture a new British steam car; Alex Moulton, who designed a post-war steam car and decided against it; Dr. T.F. Gaskell, who reports on the reaction of the oil industry to the threat of steam.

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