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As it says - not on rails, not on water, but runs on steam.
Trying to find a place for all the non-modern "steampunk" but rather the original coal-fired motors used to ferry people around the landscape. Early cars, pre-internal combustion engine.
Any genre, age, fiction and non-.
Trying to find a place for all the non-modern "steampunk" but rather the original coal-fired motors used to ferry people around the landscape. Early cars, pre-internal combustion engine.
Any genre, age, fiction and non-.
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BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...)
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Jan 16, 2023 10:37PM
'... and road-using vehicles' means coaches and things ?
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BookLovingLady wrote: "'... and road-using vehicles' means coaches and things ?"Precisely. I don't believe they were referred to as cars at the time, and I wouldn't want to make assumptions about terminology, since each invention seemed to have their own names. Horseless carriages, motor coaches, land yachts... whatever. :)
If it wasn't on rails or water.....
RIP, BookLovingLady. Thanks for the vote. You are already missed. <3
