. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. delay,the electric vehicle is beyond criticism. Chicago Automobile Show The Fourteenth Annual AutomobileShow at the Coliseum January 24 to31 was particularly significant as illus-trating the rapid and gigantic stridesof this industry. The number of ex-hibitors of automobiles reached 500,with 215 firms displaying auto acces-sories, the value in machines alonebeing conservatively set at $3,000,-000. No one year has brought out somany new conveniences for the useof the autoist, from the electric selfstarter to specially designed clocks, nor has ele
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. delay,the electric vehicle is beyond criticism. Chicago Automobile Show The Fourteenth Annual AutomobileShow at the Coliseum January 24 to31 was particularly significant as illus-trating the rapid and gigantic stridesof this industry. The number of ex-hibitors of automobiles reached 500,with 215 firms displaying auto acces-sories, the value in machines alonebeing conservatively set at $3,000,-000. No one year has brought out somany new conveniences for the useof the autoist, from the electric selfstarter to specially designed clocks, nor has elegance ever before enteredso much into the construction andfinish of cars. Besides the trend to-ward the six cylinder engine, thecyclecar, the increased use of the wirewheel and the devices for gasolineeconomy are in the foreground. Al-though 1,127,940 cars were licensed in1913, the fact is that in this countryalone 605,000 of these were purchasedduring 1911, and the year 1914, it isbelieved among manufacturers, willsurpass all previous A Certain Somberness About the Great Black Cars Themselves Typified the Conservativeness of Wealth and Luxury Popular Electricity and the Worlds Advance AUTOMOBILE BUS LINE WITH CONDUCTRESSES Provided the Board of Estimates in New York City givesits consent, the Peoples Bus Lines will be regularly organ-ized, to operate storage battery driven buses over some 21different routes about the city. One of the backers of thescheme is Thomas A. Edison, and his new battery will beused to propel the car like vehicles. If the bus lines arepermitted to start operations, the five cent fares will be col-lected by nattily dressed, uniformed, female conductors,. 1453 ~i^::,;.... <j: Female Conductors will Collect Fares on This Bus Line
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