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40 Quite the most perfect cars are my two electric carriages, one a Columbia phaeton, and the other a small brougham supplied by the City and Suburban Electric Carriage Company; but—and it is a big but—they are limited to a range of fifty miles, and though there are constant improvements in batteries, and electric charging stations are springing up all over the country, I can only at present recommend them for a twenty-mile radius round a house in town or country—for that work they are not to be excelled. Only those who have suffered the experience of seeing a valuable pair of horses losing their step and style



can realise what a help to a stable it is to have one electric carriage on the premises. For shopping, theatre and station work, an electric carriage is an inestimable boon.

In considering the purchase of a motor-car I will assume that the reader desires only one, and that it will be required to do all kinds of work. This involves, then, that such a carriage must be either closed or else so made that a top can be fixed to it. Altogether insufficient attention has been paid to the