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HOWARD preferred his Doble over his Stanley . . . but he was critical of both because they took too much time to get up steam, and they had relatively short non-stop cruising ranges. They consumed water at what Howard considered an inordinate rate, and had to stop about every 60 or 70 miles for a refill...
...want a steamer that will get under way in 20 seconds, starting from a cold stop," he stipulated. "With the present steamer, it takes from two to five minutes to get up steam. If I had a fire, I wouldn't be able to get them out of the garage. Second, I want a steamer that will run from Los Angeles to San Francisco on one filling of water...
...owned a Stanley and I had a Doble. The Doble was a great machine, but they both had two big flaws . . . For one thing it took anywhere up to five minutes to get up a head of steam, and the goddam garage could burn down in that time. And also you couldn't get more than 70 or 80 miles to a tankf ul of water...
...Nobel Prizewinner -and I told him I ... wanted two real bright boys to come and work for me and to develop the Hughes Steamer ... He found two young kids, Lewis and Burns, and I told them what I wanted ... a steamer that would get up a head of steam instantly, or as close as possible, and one that would give me four to five hundred miles without having to refill the boiler. I put them in a garage out near Caddo's headquarters on Romaine Street and I let them...
They came up with a flashy-looking five-passenger convertible, a real jazzy-looking machine . . . They told me it would go 400 miles on one tank of water and they had a flash-firing system worked out where they could get up steam in less than half a minute ... I asked them how they solved the water problem and Burns said to me, "Well, we just made the whole body one big radiator, full of tubes...