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From the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, operating from 1902 to 1924. They went bust after their steam cars couldn't compete with advancing internal combustion engine technology. A key development in their the demise was the electric starter, which eliminated the risk of injury from a crank start.
Photo of a 1908 car, same vintage as the ad, but this model has a covered top to keep out the rain and sun.
Six horsepower engine from a Stanley Steamer,
And the steam generator from a 1919 model,
Steam locomotives are also fragile and don't have that much power compared to diesel and then diesel-electric. In Europe coal that locomotives could use was also very expensive so at the end of the steam era they had quite a few machines converted to burn heavy liquid fuels in the boiler.
(And steam has a lot of drawbacks like needing to keep the fire going, having to wait for pressure to build up… you can just start a diesel locomotive and start pulling a train quickly, so it requires a lot less labour)