EDISON STORAGE BATTERY.
A MARKED SUCCESS. About two months ago one of the Edison storage battery cars was placed on the Twenty-eighth street, New York crosstown line, as an experiment. The car has been in constant operation since, and has required no alteration or repairs other than are common to the ordinary street car. It has proved remarkably economical in the consumption of power. Instead of coating two cents a mile, as was at first stated, the actual cost of the car has been less than half a cent —0.-13 cent to be exact. It costs more to start and stop the car than to keep it running, and it was supposed by practical street railroad men that when the car was pulled into active service on congested streets the cost of running it would far exceed the estimate made by builders. So satisfactory have the experimemonts with this car proved, that an order has been placed with the Edison Company for sixteen more to be used on the Twenty-eighth street crosstown line,
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Cromwell Argus, 18 July 1910, Page 6
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173EDISON STORAGE BATTERY. Cromwell Argus, 18 July 1910, Page 6
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