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A-Z OF STEAM VEHICLES

EAGLE

In view of the US bald eagle motif, used by Case and others, it is not surprising that Eagle was a popular name for cars (at least ten recorded), tractors and a traction engine. None seem to have been connected and the tractor firm (1906 to the Second World War) situated in Appleton, Wisconsin was geographically far away from the traction engine of the same name listed in the early 1890s at Evansford, Indiana where it appears to have left very few traces.

EASTMAN

Henry F Eastman was a bicycle maker in Cleveland, Ohio, USA who tried an Electro Cycle three-wheeler in 1898. With the formation of the Eastman Automobile Co in 1900 it was single cylinder steam cars that took precedence. These were four-wheelers

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