The Gasoline Caddy and Errand Boy 



With a gasoline foot -cart one boy does the work of three 



A GROCER on Manhattan Island, New 

 York, has bought a gasoline foot- 

 cart for his special delivery service. 

 The result has been an increase in business 



stands while driving and his weight is 

 carried between the wheel centers, so that 

 the balance is easily maintained. He leans 

 on the handlebar for support and to steady 



At left: The foot-cart is 

 used as a tender on the 

 automobile to summon 

 help to the car in a hurry 



Below: The golf caddy 

 finds it a convenience and 

 an economizer of time and 

 temper over the links 



as well as a saving in money of $21.60 a 

 week. Formerly this grocery, which 

 also handles meat, paid three boys to 

 handle special rush orders for late 

 dinners at the rate of twelve dollars 

 each a week in addition to their ex- 

 penses of about six dollars a week. 

 One gasoline foot-cart now does the 

 work of the three boys. 



Gasoline and oil for the gas -cart 

 costs about forty cents a day, each 

 day's work averaging one hundred 

 miles. The machine itself costs 

 only one hundred dollars. Hence 

 the grocery saves over $1100 a 

 year. Even if a new cart 

 is bought every year the 

 annual saving is still one 

 thousand dollars. 



The foot -cart is also 

 being used by golf caddies; 

 by salesmen who make many 

 calls a day; by a theatrical 

 producer who uses it as a 

 tender on his automobile to 

 summon help in case the large 

 machine gets into a mudhole when he is in 

 a hurry to be on his way, and by factory 

 messengers in large plants. 



This miniature one-passenger machine 

 has a pressed steel platform, suspended 

 about four inches from the ground between 

 pneumatically tired wheels. The motor is 

 attached to the front wheel. The rider 



The delivery boy 

 speeds away at 

 the rate of twen- 

 ty-five miles an 

 hour with his 

 basket on his arm 



himself, steering and controlling 

 the operation of the machine at 

 the same time. Both the brake 

 and the clutch are operated by 

 moving the handlebar forward or 

 backward. The speed can be regu- 

 lated as desired, twenty-five miles 

 an hour being about the maximum. 

 The delivery boy carries his basket on 

 his arm, and if he has other bundles to be 

 delivered on the same trip he secures them 

 to the sloping front of the foot-platform 

 and sails away with perfect ease and evident 

 enjoyment. His machine is so narrow thai 

 he can make his way through crowded 

 thoroughfares without slackening speed. 



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