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Title: Light country railways and street tramways; information respecting an economical and efficient mode of transit, compiled from papers furnished by the inventor and the manufacturers of the motors employed, together with official reports of a royal commission appointed by the Danish government ... and of exhaustive trials carried out by the Prussian government in 1877

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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Attention is Requested to the Following: — [Translation.] — Prussian Government Trials of Rowan's Steam Car (on the royal Prussian Military Railway), in the Summer of 1877

Attention is Requested to the Following:

[Translation.]

Prussian Government Trials of Rowan's Steam Car (on the royal Prussian Military Railway), in the Summer of 1877.

*General description of the Car used in these trials*.
Length	(= 33 ft. 0 in.)
Breadth	(= 6 ft. 9 in.
Height	(= 15 ft. 5 in.
Number of Passengers	62
Weight of car and engine, empty	about 6¾ tons.
Weight per wheel, loaded	about 1¾ tons.
Power of engine	15 horses.

The trials took place, for the most part, on the Military Railway, but there was also constructed at Clausdorf, by the Royal Railway Regiment, a temporary line of, with steep gradients and sharp curves for the special purpose of these trials.