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locomotion, as I firmly believe that if an Act can be 

 passed to encourage their construction, electric carriages 

 will be made to travel at a great speed with perfect 

 safety, and with none of the objectionable character- 

 istics of a steam-engine. It will be merely a matter 

 of charging the battery at intervals during the journey, 

 and this could easily be done at the large towns in 

 which one rested. 



The followino- interestinof account of a do^-cart 

 propelled by electricity appeared in the Morning Post 

 of January 6th, iSSS, copied from Engineering : 



An Electric Dog-cart.— Mr. Volk, whose electric railway is 

 known to all visitors to Brighton, has constructed an electrically- 

 driven dog-cart, which is attracting a good deal of attention there. 

 It is driven by a half horse-power Immisch motor and sixteen small 

 E. P. S. accumulators, which have a capacity equal to six hours' 

 work. In the desire to keep the machinery light scarcely sufficient 

 power has been provided, so that, although the vehicle will make a 

 speed of nine miles an hour on asphalte, it only makes a speed of 

 four miles on a soft macadam road, while, with two passengers, an 

 incline of one in thirty is the limit of its climbing power. The m.otor 

 runs at a high speed, and transmits its motion by means of a 

 Reynolds chain to a countershaft, from which another chain carries 

 the power to a four-feet wheel attached to one of the road wheels. 

 This last driving wheel is formed of a series of blocks about one foot 

 apart. — Engineering. 



