ELECTRICAL CARS.
REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT. PICKING UP POWER. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) LONDON, Oet. 7. The Daily News announces the result of experiments made in a secret laboratory with a small motor-car, devoid of wireless attachment, which picked up by electrical induction from a coil three yards away sufficient power to cross a wooden platform and climb a ramp.
The paper prophesies that when all the main roads have electric lighting cables motorists will drive silent cars and pay for their motive power through meters affixed to the dashboards by the Electricity Commissioners.
Professor D. A. Low, emeritus professor of civil and mechanical engineering, University of London, says electrically-driven transport must come. Perfected knowledge of electricity will bring a transport era which will make a petrol engine look as funny as an old wooden velocipede docs now.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 7
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