Liquid Air Power & Automobile Co.

The Liquid Air car resembled any light steam buggy of the period, but carried a tank of liquid air under high pressure whose expansion was supposed to drive an ordinary single-cylinder steam-type engine. The efficiency of such a system was been estimated at only 4%, and it is improbable that the car could have run any distance, if at all. The scheme was probably a stock promotion project, like those of the Pennington and some other companies.[1]

Liquid Air Power & Auto Co. Letter

This letter on Liquid Air Power & Auto Co. stationary suggests the company is purchaseing equipment for a manufacturing operation.

[1]Georgano, G. N., Encyclopedia of American Automobiles, (New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1968), p. 119. Georgano lists the company as existing from 1901 - 1902, but as the letter illustrated here documents, it was in business as early as August 1899.