DELLING
Eric H Delling was chief engineer 1923-7 at Brooks Steam Motors (which see). At the same time he built roughly a hundred of his own Dellings at West Collingwood, New Jersey, having originally established the Delling Steam Motor Co at Philadelphia in 1923. They had two-cylinder double-acting 60hp engines with poppet valves and oil-fired boiler under the bonnet. Remarkably they also had four-wheel Lockheed hydraulic brakes as early as 1925, a useful feature for a 60mph car.
Eric H Delling originally came to prominence as the designer of the Mercer L-head petrol automobile and had then created his similar Deltal sports model which was adopted by Mercer in 1915. Having been a late convert to steam, he is believed to have worked with Stanley at some stage and then in the late 1920s he returned to the factory of the, by then defunct, Mercer Auto Co in Trenton, NJ, USA. This had been purchased by New York investors and became SuperSteam
