Query Used:   SELECT year, chassis, engine, model, body, imageText, imageURL, ownerInfo, notes, horsepower, boiler, gearratio, tires, wheelbase, weight FROM reg_stanleyregister where model = '728' or modelsort = '728' order by year, chassis+0

YearTypeImageOwner InfoSpecsNotes
1916 chassis: 16402
engine:
model: 728
body: 5-pass

image source - Mike Zerega
current owner:
5/22, US, PA
Daryl Kendall

previous owners:
Cyrus Y. Ferris, Jr., 1978
Carl S. Amsley
10/3/44, Mervin Allatt, 1950
R. A. Starbird
horsepower: 20
boiler: 25" x 15"
gear ratio:
tires:
wheelbase: 130
weight:
Maroon in 1950
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1976 Woodstock steam meet
1916 chassis: 16451
engine:
model: 728
body: touring

current owner:
unknown

previous owners:
Russell Benore, 1961
horsepower:
boiler:
gear ratio:
tires:
wheelbase:
weight:
1917 chassis:
engine: 7-1508
model: 728
body: 5-pass

image source - StanleySteamers.com
current owner:
4/14/89, US, WA, 1991

previous owners:
8/87, George Kerstetter, US
1973, Craven Museum, CA
Gordon E. Armstrong, CA
horsepower: 20
boiler: 23" x 16"
gear ratio: 40-60
tires: 34 x 4.5
wheelbase: 130
weight:
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
Restored.
other notes:
Sharp-pointed condenser shell. 1991 Register lists as as serial # 21056.
1917 chassis: 17196
engine:
model: 728
body: 5-pass

image source - Automobile Quarterly , v25 #1
current owner:
10/76, US, OH, 1991

previous owners:
Carl S. Amsley
horsepower: 20
boiler: 23" x 18"
gear ratio: 40-60
tires: 34 x 4.5 ss
wheelbase: 130
weight: 3400
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
[no notes]
other notes:
1917 chassis: 17220
engine: 1721
model: 728
body: 5-pass

current owner:
US, MI, 2009

previous owners:
1981, Dan Sheler
Samuel I. Sheler, 1961
7/47, Dan Sheler
c. 1930, G. Bettes
horsepower: 20
boiler: 23" x 16"
gear ratio: 40-60
tires: 34 x 4.5 ss
wheelbase: 130
weight: 3600
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
4,372 actual miles. Believed to be purchased new in Grand
Rapids. Bettes used as parade car. Put in storage
1940-47. Samuel I. Sheler never used it. Very good original.
other notes:
1917 chassis: 17225
engine: 735-1731
model: 728
body: 5-pass

image source - VMCCA Bulb Horn , Jan. 1975
current owner:
US, NY, 2008

previous owners:
Rev. Stanley W. Ellis, 1961
George Woodbury
George Hildreth
horsepower: 20
boiler: 23" x 18"
gear ratio: 40-60
tires: 34 x 4.5
wheelbase: 130
weight: 3800
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
Good unrestored. Needs paint, top, burner, retube boiler.
Stored 1928-46. Hildreth was a Topsham, ME Stanley dealer.
Subject of
The Story
of a Stanley Steamer
. Owned 12 yrs. by Ellis.
other notes:
Ellis advertised car in 1954. 1961 roster says engine # 735-17311, assume typo.
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1956 Glidden Tour
1957 Steam Car Meet, Lakeville, CT
1917 chassis: 17292
engine:
model: 728
body: touring

image source - HCCA Gazette , Sep-Oct 1959
current owner:
1975, US, KY, 2012

previous owners:
Richard Nutting
Wayne O. Nutting, 1969
Raymond E. Nelson, 1957
Guy J. Burnham, 1919
horsepower: 20
boiler:
gear ratio:
tires: 35 x 5
wheelbase:
weight:
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
[not in 1991 Register]
other notes:
Subject of articles in
The
Steam Automobile
, Winter 1959, and
Antique
Automobile
, Jul.-Aug. 1961. New boiler in 1965. Suffered a tragic fire at
Knott's Berry Farm in 1969. Last driven in 1990.
1917 chassis: 17296
engine:
model: 728
body: 5-pass

image source - personal collection
current owner:
US, NJ, 2015
Bob Crane

previous owners:
Dewey Barnes
Carl Amsley
1920, Abner Devilbiss
horsepower: 20
boiler: 26" x 18"
gear ratio: 40-60
tires:
wheelbase: 128
weight: 4200
Sprague Register 1991 notes:
[no notes]
other notes:
Subject of an article in
Antique
Automobile
,
Summer 1955. Devilbiss drove the car round-trip to the Kent, Ohio
meet in 1957, used car into late '60s. Barnes installed 30hp
boiler. Note that the "bill" on the tips of the front fenders
seems to have
been discontinued somewhere between #17296 and #17417.
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1956 Steam Car Meet, Schwenksville
1957 Steam Car Meet, Kent, OH
2007 Steam Car Tour, Delaware
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