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1854 CARROZZA DI BORDINO

Presented by Politecnico di Torino

Steam-powered landau
Coke-fuelled
Maximum speed - 8 km / h
Weight - about 3 tons


Virginio Bordino, an officer in Italy’s Royal Engineers and a pioneer of locomotion in Italy, built this vehicle in Turin’s Military Arsenal by fittine a two-cylinder steam engine below the suitably reinforced bodyshell of a horse-drawn landau, together with a boiler and burner at the back. It was driven by an original transmission system consisting of con rods directly linked to a crankshaft-shaped rear axle, and consumed 30kg of coke per hour.
 
 

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