In this note we introduce the concept of an almost left automorphic Moufang loop and study the properties of tangent algebras of smooth loops of this class.
The paper is devoted to the study of free objects in the variety of Steiner
loops and of the combinatorial structures behind them, focusing on their
automorphism groups. We prove that all automorphisms are tame and the
automorphism group is not finitely generated if the loop is more than
$3$-generated. For the free Steiner loop with $3$ generators we describe the
generator elements of the automorphism group and some relations between them
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