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This is a Bollee steam bus with Muhlbacher body work, built in 1885.
It could carry 16 people at a speed of 10 mph. It was built on the pattern of a "diligence" of the 1850s - that is, a substantially built coach with four or more horses that was the French version of a stagecoach. It weighed 15432.36 pounds. It survives today in the National Museum of the Car and Tourism in Compiègne in northern France.
Thanks Steve!
http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-pratique/modelisme-modeles-reduits/sujet9809-8575.htm
http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/r%C3%A9volution_industrielle/61047
Update Feb 17th
http://www.automobilemag.com/features/lists/10-coolest-things-at-paris-retromobile/
http://www.escuderia.com/retro-mobile-paris-2016/
This is one of Amedee Bollee's creations - from 1885? A Google search will find a picture of what appears to be a surviving example.
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