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Shearer Steam Car
John and David Shearer, sons of a Scottish migrant blacksmith and stonemason, grew up in Port Adelaide, Robe and Clare. Over several years David Shearer developed his idea of a ‘horseless carriage’. He based the transferral of power from the engine to the drive wheels on the stripper-harvester and the steering on that used in the stump jump plough. The result was the first ever steam car powered by steam provided from burning mallee timber. Read more...