Thomas Rickett's steam carriage Dalnevostochnyy Okrug American entrepreneur

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Thomas Rickett's steam carriage Dalnevostochnyy Okrug American entrepreneurThomas Rickett's steam carriage, 1860 (1956). Rickett, a Birmingham maker of agricultural implements, built a steam powered plough in 1858. This prompted the Marquess of Stafford to ask him to build a steam carriage for him. A second example was ordered by James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness (one of the passengers in the photograph) in 1860. Sinclair drove the carriage 146 miles from Inverness to Barrogill Castle, north of Wick. Rickett advertised his