The model 826 Stanley was delivered 8/26/1916 from the Stanley Steam Car Co. as a running chassis and it was set up with two boilers.  Where the second boiler was installed is where the driver usually sat. Everything in the driver's area was moved to the rear to make room for the second boiler.  Moved to the rear by 30 inches were the steering gear, both brake cross shafts, hook up and brake pedals and even the pump pit was moved to the rear. The car's Daytona racing career was short because it was soon sent to Mr Fred Lewis's California Diamond Bar Ranch outside of Los Angeles.  About this time the rear boiler was removed and the model 826 was refitted as a truck to haul workers and supplies to his ranch.  Goldie Moore of La Verne California  purchased the model 826 from the Buick dealer in 1922 and he used it in his plumbing and welding business up until 1929.  In 1961 Goldie built a depot hack body for it and that is the way that it was when I purchased it in 1998 from Goldie's son, Richard Moore.

The model 826 is a steeled frame Mountain Wagon type with the 30 hp Stanley engine and boiler mounted on a 136" wheel base. The cross member that holds the engine support strap is notched so the engine could have a larger crank gear for higher speeds. The engine presently is geared 50 to 80.   The frame is still drilled for the relocation of the driver's controls to the rear and it also has the mounting holes in the frame for the second 30 hp boiler.  All these extra holes all look like they there were professionally drilled at the Stanley Factory.

The pump pit is still mounted at its relocated rear position.  To return them to their single boilered forward location the hook up levers still show where new pieces of rod have been welded back in. The firewall and doors look like they came from the Stanley factory but the aluminum body looks like a custom built body.  Brent Campbell looked at some of the early photos of this steamer's body and he thinks that it has historical significance and that it should be preserved. The model 826's unusual aluminum flush sided two place cab is now stored in my garage.  I have mounted an authentic noncondensing 12 passenger Mountain Wagon body on the frame and I am restoring it as a correct 12 passenger Mt. Wagon.  A couple of the Mountain Wagon components, that the model 826 still had under it, are the under-frame mounted 57 gallon water tank, and its original Mt.Wagon fuel tank. These two items wouldn't have been found on the frame when it was used as a double boilered racer. This is where I am now at with my information.  I am appealing to you for any photos of or information on the model 826 or on Mr. Fred Lewis.

Pat Farrell,  6647 Bridgewater Lane,  Sedro Woolley, WA  98284, U.S.A.

Telephone: USA- 360-856-1294

Email:- farrelrp@verizon.net