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1889 Hildebrand and Wolfmuller Steam Motorcycle

1889 Hildebrand and Wolfmuller Steam Motorcycle in The Great War, TV Series, 1964 Ep. 1

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1889 Hildebrand and Wolfmuller Steam Motorcycle

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nzcarnerd ◊ 2011-08-30 20:46	I wonder if it is steam powered.
chicomarx ◊ 2011-08-31 00:11	Must be, looks like steam escaping.
brotherjack ◊ 2011-08-31 13:46	think so also, + or - like a Holden but is not
chicomarx ◊ 2011-08-31 16:08	Likely to be an English inventor, maybe a one-off.
chicomarx ◊ 2011-08-31 21:54	Riding a boiling kettle is not the greatest invention, btw.
nzcarnerd ◊ 2011-09-16 02:54	See this link - http://www.steamcar.net/phorum.html - and look for entries dated September 15 2011. -- Last edit: 2011-09-16 12:17:05
chicomarx ◊ 2011-09-20 23:42	That's excellent! Thanks Mark I'll blatantly copy all that information here: Quote Yes it is the Hildebrand and Wulfmuller steam motorcycle which is in the Science Museum London collection. It is shown in action for a few seconds right at the beginning of the first programme in the BBC Great War series. The bike is shown as an example of technology of the early 1900's when setting the scene for the start of WW1 - the BBC evidently did not recognise it as a steam motorcycle as there is no comment on it. The bike, although German, was entered by a frenchman in the first Brighton run of 1896 - the Emancipation Run - when it was called a Dalifol. It got to the science museum and I think the bit of film was probably made much later, possibly in the 1920s. The film shows the rider putting coal into the burner and then another person riding it away. We had a feature on it in the Steamcar Magazine some years ago. Here are a couple of links on it. http://objectwiki.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wiki/Hildebrand.html http://www.ozebook.com/azh/hild.htm and another link on steam motorcycles in general which shows many of them including another Hildebrand and Wolfmuller in another unspecified museum. http://www.flickr.com/photos/garciavince/page9/ Mike ------- Re: Is this a steam bike? Posted by: Peter Turvey (---.nmsi.ac.uk) Date: September 16, 2011 10:59AM The bike itself is in the Museum's Large Object Store at Wroughton near Swindon, and can be seen by appointment - contact Rebecca Storr, Stores Access Co-ordinator email - Rebecca.Storr@ScienceMuseum.org.uk Peter Turvey Senior Curator Science Museum at Wroughton © www.steamcar.net (So model origin Germany as well.)

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