. Review of reviews and world's work. AN ELECTRIC TRUCK. (Capacity, 4 tons. Will run 25 miles at 10 miles per hour, onone battery-charsie. Climbs 1.) per cent, crades. Cost ofoperation, one cent per ton-mile. Weight of truck 8,500pounds, and price about S4,(HK).) smell, ideally easy to operate, and, although themost expensive automobile, it still shows a savingover horse-drawn vehicles on an estimate of sev-. ELECTKIC MAIL WAGON, USED BY THE UNITED STATESPOST-OFFICE. distributed electric supply-stations (things sureto come), this would seem to be the automobileof the future. For the present, h
. Review of reviews and world's work. AN ELECTRIC TRUCK. (Capacity, 4 tons. Will run 25 miles at 10 miles per hour, onone battery-charsie. Climbs 1.) per cent, crades. Cost ofoperation, one cent per ton-mile. Weight of truck 8,500pounds, and price about S4,(HK).) smell, ideally easy to operate, and, although themost expensive automobile, it still shows a savingover horse-drawn vehicles on an estimate of sev-. ELECTKIC MAIL WAGON, USED BY THE UNITED STATESPOST-OFFICE. distributed electric supply-stations (things sureto come), this would seem to be the automobileof the future. For the present, however, the electric automo-bile cannot offer tlie general usefulness of thesteam carriage or the gasoline carriage ; the manwho would journey about the country in anydirection on roads as they are must have one ofthese latter. The gasoline carriage has won itsspurs ; the steam carriage is rapidly winningspurs also, and owes much of its success to thefact that for generations now engineers have beenworking to improve and simplify the steam-en-gine, while the gas engine, a more recent product,has been less perfected. Therefore, it is not sur-prising that the machinery in a steam aittomobiletakes up half the space and weighs half as muchas equally effective machinery in the gasoline au-tomobile. Still, this heavier machinery bears abroader stamp of approval than the lighter, be-cause it has had time to
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