Stanley Register Online - 1956 Schwenksville Meet

Last update:
12/17/12

An early 3-day steam meet, this one took place Fiday through Sunday. Sept. 14-16, 1956.
Still predating the formation of the Steam Automobile Club of America, this meet drew many of the active steamers in the mid-Atlantic.
17 or 18 Stanleys, and 4 or 5 other steamers made it to Schwenksville.
Earle Eckel drove the fabled 1912 roadster to the meet, then returned home and towed the 1903.
The only scheduled tour was an 84-mile round trip on Saturday to Marshalls' in Yorklyn.
The meet was written up in The Antique Automobile and Light Steam Power magazines.

Thanks to SACA President Tom Kimmel for a copy of the original list of registrants for the meet.
(All information is verbatim from that list.)
Not all of the registered cars actually attended. Those known to have attended, according to
contemporary articles, are indicated by *.

* 1. Art R. Mix, 1899 Locomobile 2 pass. Runabout
* 2. Dr. Fred W. Phillips, 1899 Mobile 2 pass. Runabout
* 3. James Beun, 1903 Grout 2 pass. Runabout
* 4. G. McKay Schieffelin, 1903 Prescott Runabout
* 5. Earle S. Eckel, 1903 Stanley 4 pass. Runabout [#845]
* 6. Robert L. Lyon, 1908 Stanley Model F [#3887]
* 7. Paul J. Tusek, 1908 Stanley Model H5 [#3768]
* 8. T. Clarence Marshall, 1908 Stanley Model H5 [#3719]
* 9. Morris P. Frost, 1910 Stanley [Model 60] [#5440]
10. L. Edward Pamphilon, 1911 Stanley Model 60 [#5980]
* [Pamphilon instead brought 1918 Stanley Model 735 #18170]
* 11. T. Clarence Marshall, 1913 Stanley Model 76 [#6889]
12. Earle S. Eckel, 1914 Stanley Model 712 [#7769]
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* 14. George O. King, 1914 Stanley Model 710 [#7517]
* 15. T. Clarence Marshall, 1915 Stanley Model 820 [#15037]
* 16. Robert E. Ostwald, 1916 [sic] Stanley Model 725 [sic - 726] 3 pass. [#17704]
* 17. Abner Devilbiss, 1917 Stanley Model 730 [sic - 728] 5 pass. [#17296]
* 18. William D. Zerega, 1920 Stanley Model 735 7 pass. [#20044]
* 19. C. C. Mershon, 1922 Stanley 740 Coal Burner [# unknown]
* 20. John Tyson, 1922 Stanley 740 7 pass. [# unknown]
* 21. Clyde S. Walton, 1922 [sic] Stanley 740 7 pass. [#23509]
* 22. C. E. Simmons, 1922 [sic] Stanley 740 5 pass. [#23496]
23. Jos. B. VanSciver, III, 1923 Stanley 740 roadster [#23495]
* 24. E. Ward Richards, 1924 Stanley 750 5 pass. [#24019]
25. T. Clarence Marshall, 1924 Doble Touring
26. T. Clarence Marshall, 1924 Doble Touring
27. Francis W. Bunting, 1925 Stanley SV Touring [#25007]
28. Forrest R. Detrick, 1956 Detrick (If ready for Meet)

Tours

Stanley Steamer steam car